Black History in Atlantic Canada: A Bibliography

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Black History in Atlantic Canada: A Bibliography Suzanne Morton (bio) and Donald Wright (bio) By definition, a bibliography is a work in progress and this bibliography is no exception. Casting a wide net, it also reflects the arbitrary borders between history and its sister disciplines and the equally arbitrary distinction between published and unpublished. We know that there will be important items missing, we thank our generous colleagues who pointed us to entries that we had missed, and we acknowledge that our bibliography builds on previously published bibliographies. On that note, see George Elliott Clarke, Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002) and Flora Blizzard Francis, A Black Canadian Bibliography (Ottawa: Pan-African Publications, 2000). Yet what follows testifies to the remarkable volume of work that has been done on Black history in Atlantic Canada. And we very much hope that it fosters more research. There is research to be done on cases of 18th-century domestic enslaved labour in Newfoundland and the use of West Indian enslaved labour in the banks’ fishery. We also need to know a great deal more about the 19th century throughout the entire region. Finally, we hope that oral historians will record the memories and lives of Black people in the region who struggled to find a measure of political and economic equality across the second half of the 20th century because if this bibliography records Black history, it also reveals Black presence. Books Abucar, Mohamed. Struggle for Development: The Black Communities of North and East Preston and Cherry Brook, Nova Scotia, 1784–1987. Dartmouth, NS: McCurdy Printing, 1988. African Canadian Caucus. Justice Reform and the Black Community of Nova Scotia: The Case of Donald Marshall, Jr. Halifax: African-Canadian Caucus of Nova Scotia, 1992. Africville Genealogical Society. The Spirit of Africville. With contributions by Donald Clairmont, Stephen Kimber, Bridgal Pachai, and Charles Saunders. Halifax: Formac Press, 1992. Africville Genealogy Society, Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, and National Film Board of Canada (Atlantic Centre). Africville: A Spirit That Lives On. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 1989. Bauld, Florence L. Bear River: Untapped Roots, Moving Upwards. Halifax: Russell K. Grosse, 1997. Beaton Institute of Cape Breton Studies. Inventory of Ethnic Resources in Nova Scotia: Blacks. Sydney, NS: Beaton Institute of Cape Breton Studies, 1984. Bernard, Wanda Thomas. Fighting for Change: Black Social Workers in Nova Scotia. East Lawrencetown, NS: Pottersfield Press, 2006. Best, Carrie. That Lonesome Road: The Autobiography of Carrie M. Best. New Glasgow, NS: Clarion Publishing, 1977. Bishop, Henry, and Frank Stanley Boyd. A Black Community Album Before 1930: Exhibited at the Art Gallery, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, 8 April-8 May 1983 with the Exhibition “The Past in Focus.” Halifax and Dartmouth: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery and Black Cultural Centre, 1983. Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia. Juba’lee: A Celebration of Black Culture in Nova Scotia. Over 300 Years of History. Halifax: Society for Protection and Preservation of Black Culture in Nova Scotia, 2000. ———. Nova Scotia Black Professional Boxers: Past and Present. Dartmouth, NS: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1989. ———. Three Nova Scotia Black Churches: African Orthodox [by] Joyce Ruck, African Methodist Episcopal [by] Edward Matwawana, Disney Chapel/Rose of Sharon Assembly [by] Carolyn Smith (A Collection of Historical Essays). Cherry Brook, NS: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1990. Browne, Joan. South-Western Nova Scotia Black Communities. Halifax: Dalhousie University Institute of Public Affairs, 1978. Burrows, E.H. Captain Owen of the African Survey: The Hydrographic Surveys of Admiral W.F.W. Owen on the Coast of Africa and the Great Lakes of Canada, His Fight Against the African Slave Trade, His Life in Campobello Island, New Brunswick, 1774–1857. Rotterdam: A.A. Balkerna, 1979. Campbell, Mavis Christine. Back to Africa: George Ross and the Maroons from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone. Trenton, NS: Africa World Press, 1993. ———. Nova Scotia and the Fighting Maroons: A Documentary History. Studies in Third World Societies, Publication No. 41. Williamsburg, VA: College of William and Mary Department of Anthropology, 1990. Caplan, Ron, ed. Pearleen Oliver: Canada’s Black Crusader for Civil Rights. Wreck Cove, NS: Breton...