Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 1. Introduction: From a Property Right to Citizenship Rights – The African Canadian Legal Odyssey 1
6. Part One. Legal Pioneers
7. 2. Ethelbert Lionel Cross: Toronto’s First Black Lawyer 49
8. 3. Constructing an “Imperial Pan- Africanist”: Henry Sylvester Williams as a University Law Student in Canada 84
9. Part Two. Formal Legal Equality and Anti-Black Discrimination: Case Studies
10. 4. “Bitterly Disappointed” at the Spread of “Colour-Bar Tactics”: Viola Desmond’s Challenge to Racial Segregation, Nova Scotia, 1946 101
11. 5. Creating the Myth of “Raceless” Justice in the Murder Trial of R. v. Richardson, Sandwich, 1903 167
12. 6. Maniacal Murderer or Death Dealing Car: The Case of Daniel Perry Sampson, 1933–1935 201
13. 7. The Law’s Confirmation of Racial Inferiority: Christie v. York 243
14. 8. Errors of Fact and Law: Race, Space, and Hockey in Christie v. York 324
15. Part Three. Slavery, Race, and the Burden of History
16. 9. Slavery and Slave Law in the Maritimes 363
17. 10. The Burden of History: Race, Culture, African-Canadian Subjectivity, and Canadian Law in R. v. Hamilton 421
18. 11. A Black Day in Court: “Race” and Judging in R. v. R.D.S. 437
19. Contributors 481