We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up : Essays in African Canadian Women's History.
Bristow, Peggy.
We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up : Essays in African Canadian Women's History. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (269 pages)
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction -- 1 Naming Names, Naming Ourselves: A Survey of Early Black Women in Nova Scotia -- 2 'The Lord seemed to say "Go"': Women and the Underground Railroad Movement -- 3 'Whatever you raise in the ground you can sell it in Chatham': Black Women in Buxton and Chatham, 1850-65 -- 4 Black Women and Work in Nineteenth-Century Canada West: Black Woman Teacher Mary Bibb -- 5 'We weren't allowed to go into factory work until Hitler started the war': The 1920s to the 1940s -- 6 African Canadian Women and the State: 'Labour only, please' -- PICTURE CREDITS -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
p>This long overdue history will prove welcome reading for anyone interested in Black history and race relations. It provides a much-needed text for senior high school and university courses in Canadian history, women's history, and women's studies.
9781442683273
Women, Black-Canada-History.
Electronic books.
F1035.N3 W474 1999
We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up : Essays in African Canadian Women's History. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (269 pages)
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction -- 1 Naming Names, Naming Ourselves: A Survey of Early Black Women in Nova Scotia -- 2 'The Lord seemed to say "Go"': Women and the Underground Railroad Movement -- 3 'Whatever you raise in the ground you can sell it in Chatham': Black Women in Buxton and Chatham, 1850-65 -- 4 Black Women and Work in Nineteenth-Century Canada West: Black Woman Teacher Mary Bibb -- 5 'We weren't allowed to go into factory work until Hitler started the war': The 1920s to the 1940s -- 6 African Canadian Women and the State: 'Labour only, please' -- PICTURE CREDITS -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
p>This long overdue history will prove welcome reading for anyone interested in Black history and race relations. It provides a much-needed text for senior high school and university courses in Canadian history, women's history, and women's studies.
9781442683273
Women, Black-Canada-History.
Electronic books.
F1035.N3 W474 1999