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Beyond the Antislavery Haven: Slavery in Early Canadian Print Culture, 1789-1889

Beyond the Antislavery Haven: Slavery in Early Canadian Print Culture, 1789-1889

Bird, Ellie

Hardcover

Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century

Literary CriticismGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1526174294
ISBN13: 9781526174291
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Apr 22 2025
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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