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Mary Shadd Cary
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A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
AFRICAN CANADIAN HISTORY

PREPARED FOR THE RACISM & THE BLACK WORLD RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

BY DAVID W. STATES AND CRYSTAL D. MULDER

Posted by RUNOKO RASHIDI


BOOKS

Abucar, Mohamed H.  Struggle for Development: The Black Communities of North and East Preston and Cherrybrook, Nova Scotia, 1784-1987. Dartmouth: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1988.

Alexander, Ken, and Avis Gaze.  Towards Freedom: The African Canadian Experience. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1996.

Aylward, Carol A.  Canadiana Critical Race Theory: Racism and the Law. Halifax: Fernwood, 1999.

Bartolo, Oswald.  The History of Blacks in Canada: 1608 to Now. Montreal: National Black Coalition of Canada, 1976.

Bearden, Jim and Linda Jean Butler.  Shadd: The Life and Times of Mary Shadd Cary. Toronto: N.C. Press, 1977.

Bertley, Leo W.  Canada and its People of African Descent. Pierresfonds, Quebec: Bilongo Publishers, 1970.

Bell, D.G.  Early Loyalist Saint John: The Origin of New Brunswick Politics: 1783-1786.

Bell, Dorothy, et al.  Canadian Black Studies Bibliography. London, Ontario: 1971.

Best, Carrie M.  That Lonesome Road: The Autobiography of Carrie M. Best. New Glasgow: Clarion Publishing Co., 1977.

Black, Ayanna.  Voices: Canadian Writers of African Descent. Toronto: Harper Collins, 1992.

Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia.  Traditional Lifetime Stories: A Collection of Black Memories. 2 vols. Dartmouth, Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1987 and 1988.

Black Learner's Advisory Committee.  BLAC Report on Education: Redressing Inequity-Empowering Black Learners. Halifax: Black Learners Advisory Committee, 1994.

Boyd, Frank Stanley Jr.  A Brief History of the Coloured Baptists of Nova Scotia, 1783-1895. Halifax: Nova Scotia Department of Education, 1976

Bramble, Linda.  Black Fugitive Slaves in Early Canada. St. Catherines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing Co., 1988.

Brand, Dionne.  No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario, 1920s-1950s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.

Brode, Patrick.  The Odyssey of John Anderson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.

Campbell, D.  Banked Fires: The Ethnics of Nova Scotia. Port Credit, Ontario: Scribbler's Press, 1978.

Campbell, Mavis Christine.  The Maroons of Jamaica 1655-1796: A History of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal. Trenton: Africa World Press, 1990.

Cassidy, Ivan.  Nova Scotia: All About Us. Scarborough: Nelson Canada, 1983.

Clairmont, Donald H., and Dennis William Magill.  Nova Scotian Blacks: An Historian and Structural Overview. Halifax: Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University, No. 83, 1973.

Clairmont, Donald H., and Fred Wien.  Blacks and Whites: The Nova Scotia Race Relations Experience, 1976.

Clarke, George Elliot.  Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing, 2 vols. Porter's Lake, N.S., 1991.

Clayton, Willard Parker.  Whatever Your Will Lord: Emmanuel Baptist Church, Upper Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia, 1843-1984. Hansport, N.S.: Lancelot Press, 1984.

Crooks, J.J.  A History of Sierra Leone, Western Africa. London: n.p., 1903.

Cuthbertson, Brian C.  The Loyalist Governor: A Biography of Sir John Wentworth. Halifax: Petheric Press, 1983.

Dalhousie Institute of Public Affairs.  The Condition of the Negroes of Halifax City, Nova Scotia. Halifax: Dalhousie Institute of Public Affairs, 1962.

Dei, George Sefa, and Agnes Calliste.  Anti Racist Feminism, Critical Race and Gender Studies Halifax: Fernwood, 2000.

Dei, George Sefa, and Agnes Calliste.  Removing the Margins: The Margins and Possibilities of Inclusive Schooling. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2000.

Dejean, Paul.  The Haitians in Quebec: A Sociological Profile. Ottawa: The Tecumseh Press, 1980.

Drew, Benjamin.  The Refugee; or the Narrative of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada. Reprint; Toronto: Coles Publishing Co., 1972.

Elliot, Loris.  Bibliography of Literary Writings by Blacks in Canada. 1986.

Evans, Doris, and Gertrude Tynes.  Telling the Truth-Reflections: Segregated Schools in Nova Scotia. Hantsport: Lancelot Press.

Fergusson, C.B.  A Documentary Study of the Establishment of the Negroes in Nova Scotia Between the War of 1812 and the Winning of Responsible Government. Halifax: Public Archives of Nova Scotia, Publication No. 8, 1948.

Fergusson, Charles Bruce, ed.  Clarkson's Mission to America, 1791-1792. Halifax: Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1971.

Fyfe, Christopher.  A History of Sierra Leone. London: Oxford University, 1962.

Fyfe, Christopher.  Sierra Leone Inheritance. London: Oxford University, 1964.

Gordon, Grant.  From Slavery to Freedom: The Life of David George, Pioneer Black Baptist Minister. (Baptist Heritage in Atlantic Canada Series). Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot Press, 1992.

Gordon, Joleen.  Edith Clayton's Market Basket: A Heritage of Splintwood Basketry in Nova Scotia. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum, 1977.

Govia, Francine, and Helen Lewis.  Blacks in Canada: A Bibliographical Guide to the History of Blacks in Canada. Edmonton: Harambee Centers Canada, 1988.

Grant, John N.  The Immigration and Settlement of the Black Refugees of the War of 1812 in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Dartmouth: The Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia, 1990.

Grant, John. N.  Black Nova Scotians. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum, 1980.

Greaves, Ida.  The Negro in Canada. Montreal: McGill University Press, 1930.

Haliburton, Thomas Chandler.  An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova-Scotia, 2 vols. Halifax: Joseph Howe, 1829.

Henry, Frances.  Forgotten Canadians: The Blacks of Nova Scotia. Don Mills, Longmans Canada Ltd., 1973.

Hill, Daniel.  The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada. Agincourt: The Book Society of Canada Limited, 1981.

Hill, Lawrence.  Trials and Triumph. The Story of African-Canadians. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1993.

Hornsby, Jim.  Black Islanders: Prince Edward Island's Historical Black Community. Charlottetown: Institute of Island Studies, 1991.

Katzmann-Lawson, Mary Jane.  History of the Townships of Dartmouth, Preston and Lawrenceton: Halifax County, Nova Scotia. Halifax, N.S.: Morton & Co., 1893; Facsimile reprint, Belleville Ontario: Mika Studio, 1972.

Killian, Crawford.  Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1978.

MacKerrow, P.E.  A Brief History of the Coloured Baptists of Nova Scotia. 1783-1895. Halifax: 1895.

Marrant, John.  A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black (Now Going to Preach the Gospel in Nova-Scotia) Born in in New-York, in North America, ed Rev. London: Gilbert & Plummer, 1785.

Martin, John P.  The Story of Dartmouth. Dartmouth: John P. Martin, 1957.

Millward, Hugh.  Regional Patterns of Ethnicity in Nova Scotia: A Geographical Study. Halifax: International Education Centre, 1981.

Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.  Pictorial on Black History in Nova Scotia. Halifax: International Education Centre, 1974.

Oliver, Pearleen.  A Brief History of the Coloured Baptists of Nova Scotia. 1782-1953. Halifax: African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia, 1990.

Oliver, Pearleen.  From Generation to Generation: Bi-Centennial of the Black Church in Nova Scotia, 1785-1985: A Synopsis. Dartmouth: Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia, 1986.

Oliver, Pearleen.  An Historic Minority: The Black People of Nova Scotia, 1781-1981. Dartmouth: Metrographic Printing Services Ltd., 1981.

Oliver, Pearleen.  A Root and a Name. Dartmouth: Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia, 1977.

Pachai, Bridglal, ed.  Canadian Black Studies. 1979.

Pachai, Bridglal.  Beneath the Clouds of the Promised Land: The Survival of Nova Scotia's Blacks, vol. 1, 1600-1800. Halifax: Black Educators Association of Nova Scotia, 1987.

Pachai, Bridglal.  Beneath the Clouds of the Promised Land: The Survival of Nova Scotia Blacks, vol. 2, 1800-1989. Halifax: Black Educators Association, 1990.

Pachai, Bridglal.  Blacks. Tantallon, N.S.: Four East Publications, 1987.

Pachai, Bridglal.  Blacks of the Maritimes. 1987.

Pachai, Bridglal.  Dr. William Pearley Oliver and the Search for Black Self-Identity in Nova Scotia. Halifax: International Education Centre, Saint Mary's University, 1979.

Paris, Peter J.  Moral, Political and Religious Significance of the Black Churches in Nova Scotia. Dartmouth: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1989.

Peterson, John.  Province of Freedom: A Freedom of Sierra Leone, 1787-1870. London: Faber, 1969.

Robbins, Arlie.  Legacy to Buxton. Chatham, Ontario: Ideal Printing, 1983

Robertson, Marion.  King's Bounty: A History of Early Shelburne. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum, 1983.

Robinson, Carey.  The Iron Thorn: The Defeat of the British by the Jamaican Maroons. Kingston: Kingston Publishers, 1993.

Robinson, Carey.  The Fighting Maroons of Jamaica.  Kingston: William Collins & Sangster Ltd., 1969.

Ruck, Calvin.  Canada's Black Battalion, 1916-1920: Canada's Best Kept Military Secret. Halifax: Nimbus, 1987.

Saunders, Charles.  Sweat and Soul: The Saga of Black Boxers from the Halifax Forum to Caesar's Palace. Hantsport: Lancelot Press, 1990.

Saunders, Charles R.  Spririt of Africville. Halifax: Formac Publishing, 1992.

Shand, Gwendolyn Vaughan.  Adult Education Among the Negroes of Nova Scotia. Halifax: Institute of Public Affairs, 1961.

Smith, Carolyn, et al.  Three Nova Scotia Black Churches: A Collection of Essays. Dartmouth: Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia, 1990.

Smith, T. Watson.  "The Slaves of Canada." Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, 10 (1899). Reprint. Ottawa: Canadian Institute of Historical Microreproductions, 1985.

Spray, W.A.  The Blacks in New Brunswick. Fredericton: Brunswick Press, 1972.

Talbot, Carol.  Growing Up Black in Canada. Toronto: Williams-Wallace Productions, 1984

Thompson, Colin A.  Blacks in Deep Snow: Black Pioneers in Canada. Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1979.

Thompson, Colin A.  Black Canadians: A Biography of Dr. William Pearley Oliver, C.M. 1986

Tolliver, Althea, James A. Francois and the Watershed Action Committee. From Africville to New Road: How Four Communities Planned Their Development. Dartmouth: Watershed Joint Action Committee/Black United Front, 1983.

Torczyner, James L., with contributions from Wally Boxhill, Carl E. James, and Crystal Mulder.  Diversity, Mobility, and Change: The Dynamics of Black Communities in Canada. Montreal: McGill Consortium for Ethnicity and Strategic Social Planning, 1977.

Tulloch, Headly.  Black Canadians: A Long Line of Fighters. Toronto: N.C. Press Limited, 1975.

Ullmer, Victor.  Look to the North Star: A Life of William King. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969.

Walker, James W. St. G.  The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870. London: Longman and Dalhousied University Press, 1976.

Walker, James W. St. G.  A History of Blacks in Canada: A Study Guide for Teachers and Students. Hull, Quebec: Minister of State for Multiculturalism, 1980.

Walker, James W. St. G.  Black Identity in Nova Scotia: Community and Institutions in Historical Perspectives. Dartmouth: Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia, 1985.

Walker, James W. St. G.  Racial Discrimination in Canada: The Black Experience. Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association, 1985.

Walker, James W. St. G.  The West Indians in Canada. Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association, 1984.

Walker, James, and Pat Thorvaldson.  Identity: The Black Experience in Canada. Toronto: Gage, 1979.

Wilson, Ellen Gibson.  The Loyal Blacks. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1976.

Winks, Robin W.  The Blacks in Canada: A History. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1971.


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