THE GLOBAL AFRICAN COMMUNITY
R E F E R E N C E N O T E S
Mary Shadd Cary
Photo courtesy of the National Archives of CanadaA SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
AFRICAN CANADIAN HISTORYPREPARED 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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