A01=Ellie Bird
Author_Ellie Bird
Black Atlantic
Canada
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fugitive slave advertisements
newspapers
Nova Scotia
slave narratives
slavery
transatlantic abolition debates
Underground Railroad
United States
Product details
- ISBN 9781526174291
- Weight: 374g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 22 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book challenges the idealised narrative of Canada as an antislavery haven for self-liberated people to explore Canada’s complicated relationship with slavery. Examining advertisements, abolitionist texts and narratives about slavery in Canadian newspapers and the texts that were printed alongside them, it shows how Canadian readers and enslavers developed an image of themselves as belonging to an antislavery community even while recognising their own complicity in slavery. The book explores narratives that depict the lives of Black settlers in Canada and how slave narratives circulated in Canada. Canada’s relationship with slavery is far more complicated than seeing it as either an antislavery haven or a slaveholding space. Canada was connected to Britain, France, the Caribbean and the United States and this was central to how Canadians and Canadian readers fashioned their self-image in relation to slavery.
Eleanor Bird is a Research Associate in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University
