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Ontario’s African-Canadian Heritage
Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 1918–1967
by Karolyn Smardz Frost, Bryan Walls, Hilary Bates Neary, and Frederick
H. Armstrong
978-1-55002-814-0
$28.99 £15.00

Ontario’s African-Canadian Heritage is composed of the collected works of Professor Fred Landon, who for more than sixty years wrote about African-Canadian history. The selected articles have, for the most part, never been surpassed by more recent research and offer a wealth of data on slavery, abolition, the Underground Railroad, and more, providing unique insights into the abundance of African-Canadian heritage in Ontario. Though much of Landon’s research was published in the Ontario Historical Society’s journal, Ontario History, some of the articles reproduced here appeared in such prestigious U.S. publications as the Journal of Negro History.

Africa’s Children
A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
by Sharon Robart-Johnson
978-1-55002-862-1
$28.99 £16.99

Chronicling the history of Black families of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia, Africa’s Children is a mirror image of the hopes and despairs and the achievements and injustices that mark the early stories of many African-Canadians. This extensively researched history traces the lives of those people, still enslaved at the time, who arrived with the influx of Black Loyalists and landed in Shelburne in 1783, as well as those who had come with their masters as early as 1767. Their migration to a new home did little to improve their overall living conditions, a situation that would persist for many years throughout Yarmouth County.

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