Title The promised land : history and historiography of the Black experience in Chatham-Kent's settlements and beyond / edited by Boulou Ebanda de B'béri, Nina Reid-Maroney, and Handel Kashope Wright

Published Toronto, Canada : University of Toronto Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Series African & diasporic cultural studies African and diasporic cultural studies. Contents Part I: Introducing the Promised Land Project -- 1. The Politics of Knowledge: The Promised Land Project and Black Canadian History as a Model of Historical "Manufacturation"? / Boulou Ebanda de B'béri -- 2. Multiculturality Before Multiculturalism: Troubling Black Identity and History Beyond the Last Stop on the Underground Railroad / Handel Kashope Wright -- 3. History, Historiography and the Promised Land Project / Nina Reid-Maroney Part II: From Fragments through Biography to History. 4. William Whipper's Lands along the Sydenham / Marie Carter -- 5. Mae Alexander: Daughter of Promise / Claudine Bonner -- 6. "A Contented Mind is a Continual Feast" : Tracing Intellectual Migrations through the Promised Land / Nina Reid-Maroney Part III: Transgeographical Trajectories and Identity Formation beyond the Underground Railroad. 7. Resisting Imperial Governance in Canada: From Trade and Religious Kinship to Black Narrative Pedagogy in Ontario / Olivette Otele -- 8. African-American Abolitionist and Kinship Connections in Nineteenth-Century Delaware, Canada West, and Liberia / Peter T. Dalleo -- 9. Reimagining the Dawn Settlement / Marie Carter Summary "Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present the everyday lives and professional activities of individuals and families in these communities and highlight early cross-border activism to end slavery in the United States and to promote civil rights in the United States and Canada. Essays also reflect on the frequent intermingling of local Black, White, and First Nations people. Using a cultural studies framework for their collective investigations, the authors trace physical and intellectual trajectories of Blackness that have radiated from southern Ontario to other parts of Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa. The result is a collection that represents the presence and diffusion of Blackness and inventively challenges the grand narrative of history."--Publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Black people -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century Black people -- Ontario -- Chatham-Kent -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- Canada -- General. HISTORY -- North America. Black people Chatham-Kent (Ont.) Ontario Ontario -- Chatham-Kent Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Reid-Maroney, Nina Ruth, 1961- editor Wright, Handel Kashope, 1959- editor. Ébanda de B'béri, Boulou, editor ISBN 9781442667457 1442667451 9781442667464 144266746X

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