Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface to the First Edition xxiii
5. Preface to the Second Edition xxvii
6. Acknowledgments xxxiii
7. A Note on Terminology xxxv
8. List of Abbreviations xxxvi
9. Slavery in New France, 1628-1760 1
10. Slavery, the Loyalists, and English Canada, 1760-1801 24
11. “Back to Africa,” 1791-1801 61
12. The Attack on Slavery in British North America, 1793-1833 96
13. The Refugee Negroes 114
14. The Coming of the Fugitive Slave, 1815-1861 142
15. The Canadian Canaan, 1842-1870 178
16. A Continental Abolitionism? 233
17. West of the Rockies 272
18. To the Nadir, 1865-1930 288
19. Source of Strength?—The Church 337
20. Source of Strength?—The Schools 362
21. Source of Strength?—The Press 390
22. Self-Help and a New Awakening, 1930-1970 413
23. The Black Tile in the Mosaic 470
24. How Many Negroes in Canada? 484
25. A Note on Sources 497
26. Index 521