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  • A Brief History of Orillia: Ontario's Sunshine City

    by Dennis Rizzo ...
    Series series Brief History
    Local author Dennis Rizzo tells the fascinating and diverse history of Orillia, Ontario. First populated by the Huron, Iroquois and Chippewa Nations, Orillia is now a well-loved, year-round recreation destination. Its history is deeply tied to its water. Situated in the narrows where Lake Simcoe flows into Lake Couchiching, Orillia was a gathering place for centuries before Europeans used it to ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Parallel Communities

    The Underground Railroad in South Jersey

    by Dennis C. Rizzo ...
    Series series American Heritage
    The true story of the small African American communities that formed in southern New Jersey during the era of slavery—includes photos.For slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad, names like Springtown and Snow Hill promised sanctuary and salvation. Under the pressures of racial prejudice, many free blacks, runaway slaves, and even Native Americans formed island communities on the periphery of ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • From Midnight to Dawn

    The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

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  • The Underground Railroad

    Next Stop, Toronto!

    by Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, Karolyn Smardz Frost ...
    "The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! stands out as an engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s. Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper and Karolyn Smardz Frost offer many helpful points of entry for readers learning for the first time about Black history in Canada. They also give surprising and detailed information to enrich the understanding of ... Read more

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  • African Founders

    How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    In this sweeping, foundational work of American history, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States.African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa ... Read more

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  • Ontario's African-Canadian Heritage

    Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967

    Edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost, Bryan Walls, Hilary Bates Neary, Frederick H. Armstrong ...
    Ontario’s African-Canadian Heritage is composed of the collected works of Professor Fred Landon, who for more than 60 years wrote about African-Canadian history. The selected articles have, for the most part, never been surpassed by more recent research and offer a wealth of data on slavery, abolition, the Underground Railroad, and more, providing unique insights into the abundance of African ... Read more

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  • Ebony and Ivy

    Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

    by Craig Steven Wilder ...
    A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian.A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was ... Read more

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  • New England Bound

    Slavery and Colonization in Early America

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  • One More River to Cross

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    In the early to mid-nineteenth century, Isaac Brown, a slave, was accused of the attempted murder of a prominent plantation owner, despite there being no evidence of his guilt. Brown, after enduring two brutal floggings, was shipped to a New Orleans slave pen. From there the resourceful Brown was able to make a daring escape to Philadelphia in the free state of Pennsylvania. His biggest error was ... Read more

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  • Rebels Rising : Cities and the American Revolution

    Cities and the American Revolution

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  • It Was Dark There All the Time

    Sophia Burthen and the Legacy of Slavery in Canada

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