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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 by James W. St. G. Walker
ISBN: 9781442671447
Publication Date: 2019-08-19
The Other Loyalists by Joseph S. Tiedemann; Eugene R. Fingerhut; Robert W. Venables
ISBN: 9781441612502
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 by Mary Louise Clifford
Call Number: DT 516.7 .C57 2006
ISBN: 0786425571
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 by Lisa A. Lindsay
ISBN: 9781469631134
Publication Date: 2016-12-22
Against Wind and Tide 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
ISBN: 9780807876220
Publication Date: 2005-10-12
The Cambridge Guide to African American History by Raymond Gavins
ISBN: 9781107501966
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)
ISBN: 9780271027630
Publication Date: 2007-08-15

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