Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents
Many thousands of black people were enslaved in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Upper Canada between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is not surprising that slavery played a part in Canadian history, but it is startling that it has not received widespread attention from the general Canadian public or from historians. This sourcebook collects a variety of documents, including runaway-slave advertisements, letters, court cases, and official government documents, offering readers an opportunity to explore black slavery in the Maritimes and revise their understanding of Canadian history.
Harvey Amani Whitfield is a professor of United States and Canadian History at the University of Calgary.
Other publications from this author include:
- North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes (2018)
- “The African Diaspora in Atlantic Canada: History, Historians, and Historiography” in Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region (2017)
- The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont, 1777-1810 (2014)
- Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815–1860 (2006)
- From American slaves to Nova Scotian subjects : the case of the Black refugees, 1813-1840 (2005)
- “African and New World African Immigration to Mainland Nova Scotia, 1749-1816” in Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 7 (2004)
- “Black Refugee Communities in Early Nineteenth Century Nova Scotia” in Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 6 (2003)