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We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up : Essays in African Canadian Women's History.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1994Copyright date: ©1994Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442683273
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us UpLOC classification:
  • F1035.N3 W474 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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