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        Beyond the antislavery haven
Slavery in early Canadian print culture, 1789–1889
            
        
    
    
    
    
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        Ellie Bird
        
                        
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                        English
                    
                
                
                
                    
                        
                            Published/Copyright:
                            
                                2025
                            
                        
                    
                
            About this book
This book explores how Canadians and Canadian readers have fashioned their self-image as an antislavery haven, showing a more complicated picture of Canada as a slaveholding, exploitative and racist place.
    
    
Author / Editor information
Eleanor Bird is a Research Associate in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University
            
        Topics
| Eleanor Bird Publicly Available Download PDF | i | 
| Eleanor Bird Publicly Available Download PDF | v | 
| Eleanor Bird Publicly Available Download PDF | vi | 
| Eleanor Bird Publicly Available Download PDF | viii | 
| The construction of Canada as an antislavery haven in transatlantic print culture Eleanor Bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed | 1 | 
| Eleanor Bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed | 25 | 
| Eleanor Bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed | 59 | 
| A slave narrative in context, 1851–53 Eleanor Bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed | 93 | 
| A narrative of slavery in the United States and Canada’s first major book distributor, 1889 Eleanor Bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed | 129 | 
| Eleanor Bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed | 160 | 
| Eleanor Bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed | 165 | 
| Eleanor Bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed | 183 | 
Publishing information
                
                Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
                
                eBook published on:
                            April 22, 2025
                        
                        
                        eBook ISBN:
                        9781526174307
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
                
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                            15 illustrations
                        
                    
                
                    eBook ISBN:
                    9781526174307
                
            
        Keywords for this book
                 Black Atlantic; Canada; fugitive slave advertisements; newspapers; Nova Scotia; slave narratives; slavery; transatlantic abolition debates; Underground Railroad; United States
            Audience(s) for this book
                General/trade;