We're rooted here and they can't pull us up : : Essays in African Canadian Women's History /

We're rooted here and they can't pull us up : : Essays in African Canadian Women's History / / ed. by Peggy Bristow.

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Despite the increasing scope and authority of women's studies, the role of Black women in Canada's history has remained largely unwritten and unacknowledged. This silence supports the common belief that Black people have only recently arrived in Canada and that racism is also a fairly rece...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Brand, Dionne,
Bristow, Peggy,
Carty, Linda,
Cooper, Afua P.,
Hamilton, Sylvia,
Shadd, Adrienne,
HerausgeberIn:
Bristow, Peggy,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1994
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. Naming Names, Naming Ourselves: A Survey of Early Black Women in Nova Scotia
  • 2. 'The Lord seemed to say "Go"': Women and the Underground Railroad Movement
  • 3. 'Whatever you raise in the ground you can sell it in Chatham': Black Women in Buxton and Chatham, 1850-65
  • 4. Black Women and Work in Nineteenth- Century Canada West: Black Woman Teacher Mary Bibb
  • 5. 'We weren't allowed to go into factory work until Hitler started the war7: The 1920s to the 1940s
  • 6. African Canadian Women and the State: 'Labour only, please'
  • Picture Credits
  • Selected Bibliography

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