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HIS 221: Canadian History, Pre-Confederation (to 1867): 2. Explain the migration of Black loyalists to Canada after the American Revolution. Why did they come? What was their experience in Canada? What was the “back to Africa” movement?

Migration to Canada

The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870 by James W. St. G. Walker
Publication Date: 2019-08-19
The Other Loyalists: Ordinary People, Loyalism, and the Revolution of the Middle Colonies, 1763-1787 by Joseph S. Tiedemann; Eugene R. Fingerhut; Robert W. Venables
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America by Douglas R. Egerton
Call Number: E 269 .N3 E35 2009

Publication Date: 2009-01-13
From Slavery to Freetown: Black Loyalists After the American Revolution by Mary Louise Clifford
Call Number: DT 516.7 .C57 2006

Publication Date: 2006-01-10
A History of Blacks in Canada: A Study Guide for Teachers and Students by James W St G Walker
Call Number: FC 106 .B55 W35 1980

Publication Date: 1980

"Back to Africa" Movement

Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa by Lisa A. Lindsay
Publication Date: 2016-12-22
Against Wind and Tide: The African American Struggle Against the Colonization Movement by Ousmane K. Power-Greene
Call Number: E 448 .P786 2014

Publication Date: 2014-09-05
Journey of Hope: the Back-to-Africa movement in Arkansas in the late 1800s by Kenneth C. Barnes
Publication Date: 2005-10-12
The Cambridge Guide to African American History by Raymond Gavins
Publication Date: 2016-02-15
Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America, 1848-1880. by Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner (Editor); Margaret Hope Bacon (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007-08-15