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 Books, 2020.
Cavery-Taylor, Amanda. A Love Letter to Africville. Halifax: Fernwood, 2021.
Chopra, Ruma. Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
Clairmont, Donald H., and Dennis Magill. Africville: The Life and Death of a Canadian Black Community. 1974; Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1999.
-. The Africville Relocation Report. Halifax: Dalhousie University, 1971.
-. Nova Scotian Blacks: An Historical and Structural Overview. Dalhousie University Institute of Public Affairs [Current Publications] No. 83. Halifax: Dalhousie University Institute of Public Affairs, 1970.
Clairmont, Donald H., and Fred Wien. Blacks and Whites: The Nova Scotia Race Relations Experience. Halifax: Dalhousie University Institute of Public Affairs, 1976.
Clarke, George Elliott. Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
-. Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of “George and Rue.” Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2001.
-. Odysseys Home: Mapping African Canadian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002; rpt. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
-. Portia White: A Portrait in Words. Halifax: Nimbus, 2019.
Clarke, George Elliott, ed. Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotia Writing. Porters Lake, NS: Pottersfield Press, 1991.
-. Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotia Writing, Volume Two. Porters Lake, NS: Pottersfield Press, 1992.
Clayton, Willard Parker. Whatever Your Will Lord: Emmanuel Baptist Church, Upper Hammond Plains, NS, 1843-1984. Hantsport, NS: Lancelot Press, 1984.
Connor, John, and M.V. Marshall. Three-Five Mile Plains Study: Socio-Economic Indicators. Wolfville, NS: Acadia University Institute, 1965.
Cooper, Afua, Francoise Baylis, Camille Cameron, Ainsley Francis, Paul E. Lovejoy, David States, Shirley Tillotson, Harvey Amani Whitfield, and Norma Williams.
Report on Lord Dalhousie’s History on Slavery and Race, 2019.
https://cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/dept/ldp/Lord%20Dal%20Panel%20Final%20Report_web.pdf.
Cooper, W.M. A Proposed Program for the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Halifax: Adult Education Division, Department of Education, Province of Nova Scotia, 1954.
Crichlow, Wesley Eddison Aylesworth. Buller Men and Batty Bowys: Hidden Men in Toronto and Halifax Black Communities. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Cromwell, Edith. Inglewood: My Community [Bridgetown, NS?]: n.p., 1994.
-. A Socio-Economic Study and Recommendations: Sunnyville, Lincolnville, and Upper Big Tracadie, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. Halifax: Dalhousie University Institute of Public Affairs, 1965.
Davidson, Stephen. Black Loyalists in New Brunswick: The Lives of Eight African Americans in Colonial New Brunswick, 1783-1834. Halifax: Formac, 2020.
Davidson, Stephen, and Peter Zwicker. Birchtown and the Black Loyalist Experience: From 1775 to the Present. Halifax: Formac, 2019.
Evans, Doris, and Gertrude Tynes. Telling the Truth – Reflections: Segregated Schools in Nova Scotia. Hantsport, NS: Lancelot Press, 1995.
Fergusson, Charles Bruce. A Documentary Study of the Establishment of the Negroes in Nova Scotia between the War of 1812 and the Winning of Responsible Government. Halifax: Public Archives of Nova Scotia, Publication No. 8, 1948.
Fergusson, Charles Bruce, ed. Clarkson’s Mission to America 1791-1792. Halifax: Public Archives of Nova Scotia, Publication No. 11, 1971.
Fleming, Phyllis H. Class Configurations of the Racial Subordination of Blacks in Nova Scotia. Ottawa: n.p., 1982.
Fosty, Darril, and George Fosty. Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925. Halifax: Nimbus, 2008.
Francis, Mayann. Mayann Francis: An Honourable Life, with a foreword by George Elliott Clarke. Halifax: Nimbus, 2019.
Fyfe, Christopher, ed. “Our Children Free and Happy”: Letters from Black Settlers in Africa in the 1790s. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991.
Gibson, Ethel J. My Journey through Eternity: An Autobiography. Dartmouth, NS: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1988.
Goodall, Lian. Singing Towards the Future: The Story of Portia White. Toronto: Napoleon, 2008.
Gordon, Grant. From Slavery to Freedom: The Life of David George, Pioneer Black Baptist Minister. Hantsport, NS: Lancelot Press for Acadia Divinity College and the Baptist Historical Committee of the United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces, 1992.
Gordon, Joleen. Edith Clayton’s Market Baskets: A Heritage of Splintwood Basketry in Nova Scotia. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum, 1977.
Grant, John N. Black Nova Scotians. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum, 1980.
-. Immigrants and Emigrants: Blacks in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Prior to the War of 1812-1815. Halifax: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1990.
-. The Immigration and Settlement of the Black Refugees of the War of 1812 in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Halifax: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1990.
-. The Maroons in Nova Scotia. Halifax: Formac, 2002.
Hamilton, James Cleland. The African in Canada: The Maroons of Jamaica and Nova Scotia. Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Science 38 (1889): 364-70; rpt. n.p.: n.p., 189[?].
Head, Wilson A., and Donald H. Clairmont. Discrimination against Blacks in Nova Scotia: The Criminal Justice System. Halifax: Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall Jr. Prosecution, 1989.
Henry, Frances. Forgotten Canadians: The Blacks of Nova Scotia. Don Mills: Longman, 1973.
Hodges, Graham Russell. The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile after the American Revolution. New York: Garland Pub. in association with the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996.
Hornby, Jim. Black Islanders: Prince Edward Island’s Historical Black Community. Charlottetown: Institute of Island Studies, 1991.
Hudson, Karen. The Jamaica Maroons and the Twentieth Century Caribbean Immigration to Nova Scotia. Dartmouth, NS: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1990.
Hughes, Charles Campbell, Marc-Adelard Tremblay, Robert Norman Rapoport, and Alexander Hamilton Leighton. People of Cove and Woodlot: Communities from the Viewpoint of Social Psychiatry. Stirling County Study of Psychiatric Disorder and Sociocultural Environment, 2. New York: Basic Books, 1960.
Johnston, Justin Marcus. James Robinson Johnston: The Life, Death, and Legacy of Nova Scotia’s First Black Lawyer. Halifax: Nimbus, 2005.
Jones, Burnley, and James W. St. G. Walker. Burnley “Rocky” Jones – Revolutionary: An Autobiography, with afterword by George Elliott Clarke. Halifax: Roseway, 2016.
Kirk-Greene, Anthony. David George: The Nova Scotia Experience. Sierra Leone Studies Series. N.p.: n.p., 1960.
Komar, Debra. The Lynching of Peter Wheeler. Fredericton: Goose Lane, 2014.
Laffoley, Steven. Pulling No Punches: The Sam Langford Story. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press, 2013.
Lawson, Mrs. William (Mary Jane Katzmann). History of the Townships of Dartmouth, Preston, and Lawrencetown, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, edited by Harry Piers. Halifax: Norton & Co., 1893; rpt. Belleville: Mika, 1972.
Loo, Tina. Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada. See esp. “‘Deviating from the Strict Letter of the Law’: Race, Poverty, and Planning in Postwar Halifax,” 121-56. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019.
Mathieu, Sara-Jane. North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 2010.
McClain, Paula Denice. Alienation and Resistance: The Political Behavior of Afro-Canadians. Palo Alto, CA: R&E Associates, 1979.
McKerrow, P. E. (Peter Evander). Brief History of the Coloured Baptists of Nova Scotia and their First Organization as Churches, A.D. 1832. [Halifax?: s.n.], 1895.
McKerrow, Peter Evander, Frank Stanley Boyd, Frank Stanley Boyd, and Mary I. Allen Boyd. McKerrow: A Brief History of the Coloured Baptists of Nova Scotia, 1783-1895. Halifax: Afro Nova Scotian Enterprises, 1976.
Mensah, Joseph A. The Black United Front of Nova Scotia in Perspective, 1920-1980. Dartmouth, NS: The Front, 1981.
Nelson, Jennifer J. Razing Africville: A Geography of Racism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Niven, Laird. Was This the Home of Stephen Blucke? The Excavation of AkDi-23, Birchtown, Shelburne County. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum, 2000.
Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission. Focus: Lucasvillle, Hammonds Plains and Cobequid Road. Halifax: Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, 1974.
-. Pictorial on Black History. Halifax: Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, 1973.
O’Ree, Willie. The Autobiography of Willie O’Ree: Hockey’s Black Pioneer. With Michael McKinley. Toronto: Somerville House Publishing, 2000.
Oliver, Jules. Final Report of the Problem of Unemployment for the Negro. Halifax: Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, 1969.
Oliver, Pearleen. A Brief History of the Colored Baptists of Nova Scotia, 1782-1953. Halifax: n.p., 1953.
-. From Generation to Generation: Bi-Centennial of the Black Church in Nova Scotia 1785-1985: A Synopsis. Dartmouth, NS: Dartmouth Black Cultural Society of Nova Scotia, 1987.
-. A Historic Minority: The Black People of Nova Scotia, 1781-1981 (Dartmouth, NS: Metrographic Printing Services, 1981).
-. A Root and a Name. Halifax: n.p., 1977.
-. Song of the Spirit: 150th Anniversary Beechville United Baptist Church. Hantsport, NS: Lancelot Press, 1994.
-. A Tribute to the Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia, 1783-1983. Dartmouth, NS: Dartmouth Society for the Protection and Preservation of Black Culture in Nova Scotia, 1983.
Oliver, William P. A Brief Summary of the Nova Scotia Negro Communities. Halifax: Nova Scotia Department of Education, 1964.
-. Education in the Black Communities in Nova Scotia. Halifax: Nova Scotia Department of Education, 1974.
Pachai, Bridglal. Beneath the Clouds of the Promised Land: The Survival of Nova Scotia’s Blacks, Volume I: 1600-1800. Halifax: Black Educators Association of Nova Scotia, 1987.
-. Beneath the Clouds of the Promised Land: The Survival of Nova Scotia’s Blacks, Volume II: 1800-1989. Halifax: Black Educators Association of Nova Scotia, 1991.
-. Dr. William Pearly Oliver and the Search for Black Self-Identity in Nova Scotia. Halifax: Saint Mary’s University International Education Centre, 1979.
-. My Africa, My Canada. Hantsport, NS: Lancelot Press, 1989.
-. The Nova Scotia Black Experience through the Centuries. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2007.
-. Peoples of the Maritimes: Blacks. Halifax: Nimbus, 1997.
-. William Hall: Winner of the Victoria Cross. Tantallon, NS: Four East -Publications, 1995.
Pachai, Bridglal, and Henry Bishop. Historic Black Nova Scotia. Halifax: Nimbus, 2006.
Paris, Leonard. Jim Crow Also Lived Here: Growing up Black in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Structural Racism and Generational Poverty. Victoria, BC: Friesen Press, 2020.
Paris, Peter. The Moral, Political, and Religious Significance of the Black Churches in Nova Scotia. Dartmouth, NS: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1989.
Parsons, Viola. My Grandmother’s Days. Hantsport, NS: Lancelot Press, 1988; repub., with an introduction by George Elliott Clarke. Halifax: Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute, 2020.
Perry, Hattie. Through a Hole in the Fog. See esp. “Negroes in Barrington Township,” 7-11. Barrington, NS: Spindrift, 1991.
Pheasant, Juanita. My Valley Heritage. New Minas, NS: Reflections Publishing, 1999.
Powell, Stephen, and Laird Niven. Archaeological Surveys in Two Black Communities, 1998: Surveying the Tracadie Area and Testing Two Sites in Birchtown. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum, 2000.
Reynolds, Graham. Viola Desmond’s Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land. With Wanda Robson and foreword by George Elliott Clarke. Halifax: Fernwood, 2016.
Riley, Marie. Righting the Wrongs: Gus Wedderburn’s Quest for Social Justice in Nova Scotia. East Lawrencetown, NS: Pottersfield Press, 2011.
Robart-Johnson, Sharon. Africa’s Children: A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2009.
Robertson, Carmelita. Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia: Tracing the History of Tracadie Loyalists, 1776-1787. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum, 2000.
Robertson, John William. The Book of the Bible Against Slavery. Halifax: n.p., 1852.
Robson, Arthur. A Minority Group Study: A Demographic Study of the Black Community in Saint John, NB. Fredericton: New Brunswick Human Rights Commission, Department of Labour, 1970.
Robson, Wanda, and Ronald Caplan. Sister to Courage: Stories from the World of Viola Desmond, Canada’s Rosa Parks. Wreck Cove, NS: Breton Books, 2010.
Ruck, Calvin W. The Black Battalion, 1916-1920: Canada’s Best Kept Military Secret. Halifax: Nimbus, 1986; rpt., with foreword by Lindsay Ruck, Halifax: Nimbus, 2016.
Ruck, Lindsay. Winds of Change: Life and Legacy of Calvin W. Ruck. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press, 2014.
Ruck, Lindsay, and James Bentley. Amazing Black Atlantic Canadians. Halifax, Nimbus, 2021.
Rutland, Ted. Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Saunders, Charles R. Black and Bluenose: The Contemporary History of a Community, with an introduction by George Elliott Clarke. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press, 1999.
-. Share and Care: The Story of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children. Halifax: Nimbus, 1994.
-. Sweat and Soul: The Saga of Black Boxers from the Halifax Forum to Caesars Palace. Dartmouth, NS, and Hantsport, NS: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia and Lancelot Press, 1990.
Schama, Simon. Rough Crossings: The Slaves and the American Revolution. New York: Harper Collins, 2006.
Sealey, Donna Byard. Colored Zion: The History of Zion United Baptist Church & the Black Community of Truro, Nova Scotia. Dartmouth, NS: D.B. Sealey, 2000.
Shand, Gwendolyn V. Adult Education Among the Negroes of Nova Scotia. Halifax: Dalhousie University Institute of Public Affairs, 1961.
Simmonds, Christie Cromwell. The Colours of My Memories. Lockeport, NS: Community Books, 2006.
Skinner, Bette. Black Community Profile: A Survey of the Black Population of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Summer 1973. Halifax: Halifax Human Rights Commission, 1973.
Smardz Frost, Karolyn and David W. States. King’s College, Nova Scotia: Direct Connections with Slavery. Presented to William Lahey, President, University of King’s College and Dorota Dr. Glowacka, Chair, “King’s and Slavery: A Scholarly Inquiry,” September 2019.
Smith, Craig Marshall. The Journey Continues: An Atlantic Canadian Black Experience, with an introduction by George Elliott Clarke. Dartmouth, NS: Black Green and Red Educational Products, 2011.
-. You Had Better Be White by 6AM: The African-Canadian Experience in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Dartmouth, NS: Black Green and Red Educational Products, 2014.
Smith, T. Watson. “The Slave in Canada.” Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, vol. 10. Halifax: Nova Scotia Printing Co., 1899.
Spray, William A. The Blacks in New Brunswick. Fredericton: Brunswick Press, 1972; rpt. Fredericton: Brunswick Press, 2021, with foreword by Thandiwe McCarthy and preface by Funké Aladejebi.
Strong, Darlene. Sand Hill: Cumberland County’s Historical Black Community. Amherst, NS: Strong’s Community Development Publications, 2003.
Taylor, Wanda. It’s Our Time: The Preston Township Honouring the African Nova Scotian Communities of East Preston, North Preston, and Loon Lake/Cherry Brook. Halifax: Nimbus, 2019.
Taylor, Wanda Lauren. The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children: The Hurt, the Hope, and the Healing. Halifax: Nimbus, 2015.
Thomas, Carolyn G. Reflections: The East Preston United Baptist Church on its 150th Anniversary. N.p.: East Preston Baptist Church, 1996.
Thomas, Verna. Invisible Shadows: A Black Woman’s Life in Nova Scotia, with a foreword by George Elliott Clarke. Halifax: Nimbus, 2001.
Thompson, Brenda. Finding Fortune: Documenting and Imagining the Life of Rose Fortune (1774-1864). Halifax: SSP Publications, 2019.
Thomson, Colin A., and Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia. Born with a Call: A Biography of Dr. William Pearly Oliver, C.M. Dartmouth, NS: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1986.
Tynes, Quenta, Cecil Wright, and Craig Marshall Smith, eds. Journey: African Canadian History Study Guide. Yarmouth, NS: Southwest Nova African Canadian Cultural Awareness Project and Human Resources Development Canada, 2000.
Waldron, Ingrid. There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities. Halifax: Fernwood, 2018.
Walker, James W. St. G. Black Identity in Nova Scotia: Community and Institutions in Historical Perspective. Dartmouth, NS: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1985.
-. The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870. London: Longman and Dalhousie University Press, 1976.
Weeks, Joan. One God, One Aim, One Destiny: African Nova Scotians in Cape Breton. Sydney, NS: Cape Breton University Centre for Cape Breton Studies, 2007.
Whitehead, Ruth Holmes. Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Communities. Halifax: Nimbus, 2013.
-. The Shelburne Black Loyalists: A Short Biography of All Blacks Emigrating to Shelburne County, Nova Scotia after the American Revolution, 1783: An Edited Transcription. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum, 2000.
Whitehead, Ruth Holmes, and Carmelita A.M. Robertson, eds., The Life of Boston King: Black Loyalist Minister and Master Carpenter. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum and Nimbus, 2003.
Whitfield, Harvey Amani. Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2018.
-. Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2006.
-. From American Slaves to Nova Scotia Subjects: The Case of Black Refugees, 1813-1840. Toronto: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005.
-. North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016.
Wien, F.C., and Joan Browne. A Report of Employment Patterns in the Black Communities of Nova Scotia. Halifax: Dalhousie University Institute of Public Affairs, 1981.
Wilson, Ellen Gibson. The Loyal Blacks. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976.
Winks, Robin W. The Blacks in Canada: A History. 1971; 1997; 3rd ed., with an introduction by George Elliott Clarke. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021.
Articles
Archibald, Adams G. “Story of Deportation of Negroes from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone.” Nova Scotia Historical Collections 6 (1887-1888): 129-54.
Aylward, Carol. “Adding Colour: A Critique of ‘An Essay on Institutional Responsibility: The Indigenous Blacks and Micmac Programme at Dalhousie Law School’.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 8, no. 2 (1995): 470-501.
Backhouse, Constance. “‘I Was Unable to Identify with Topsy’: Carrie M. Best’s Struggle Against Racial Segregation in Nova Scotia, 1942.” Atlantis 22, no. 2 (March 1998): 16-26.
-. “Racial Segregation in Canadian Legal History: Viola Desmond’s Challenge Nova Scotia, 1946.” Dalhousie Law Journal 17 (1994): 299-362.
Beaton, Elizabeth. “An African-American Community in Cape Breton, 1901-1904.” Acadiensis 24, no. 2 (Spring 1995): 65-97.
-. “Religious Affiliation and Ethnic Identity of West Indians in Whitney Pier.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 20, no. 3 (January 1988): 112-31.
Beaton-Planetta, Elizabeth. “A Tale of Three Churches: Ethnic Architecture in Sydney, Nova Scotia.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 16, no. 3 (January 1984): 89-110.
Beckford, Sharon. “‘We’re Here, Standing at the Shoreline’: Sylvia Hamilton’s Intervention in the Nova Scotian Discourse on Belonging and Multicultural Citizenship.” Canadian Woman Studies 27 (2009): 114-20.
Bell, D.G. “African-American Refugees to Annapolis Royal and Saint John, 1783: A Ship Passenger List.” Nova Scotia Historical Review 16, no. 2 (July 1996): 71-81.
-. “Slavery and the Judges of Loyalist New Brunswick.” University of New Brunswick Law Journal 31 (1982): 9-42.
Bernard, Wanda Thomas, and Candace Bernard. “Passing the Torch: A Mother and Daughter Reflect on their Experiences across Generations.” Canadian Women’s Studies Journal 18, iss. 2/3 (September 1998): 46-50.
Bernard, Wanda Thomas, and Claudine Bonner. “Kinship and Community Care.” Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement 4, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2013): 155-67.
Blakeley, Phyllis R. “Boston King: A Negro Loyalist Who Sought Refuge in Nova Scotia.” Dalhousie Review 48, no. 3 (1968): 347-56.
-. “William Hall, Canada’s First Naval V.C.” Dalhousie Review 37, no. 3 (Autumn 1957): 250-8.
Bobier, Richard. “Africville: The Test of Urban Renewal and Race in Halifax, Nova Scotia.” Past Imperfect 4 (1995): 163-80.
Brooks, Joanna. “John Marrant’s ‘Journal’: Providence and Prophecy in the Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic.” North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History 3, no. 1 (February 1999): 1-21.
Brymner, Douglas. “The Jamaican Maroons – How They Came to Nova Scotia – How they Left It.” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 2nd ser., 1 (1895): 81-90.
Cahill, Barry. “The Black Loyalist Myth in Atlantic Canada.” Acadiensis 29, no. 1 (Autumn 1999): 76-87.
-. “‘The Coloured Barrister’: The Short Life and Tragic Death of James Robinson Johnston, 1876-1915.” Dalhousie Law Journal 15, no. 2 (October 1992): 336-79.
-. “First Things in Africadia; Or, The Trauma of Being a Black Lawyer in Late Victorian Saint John.” University of New Brunswick Law Journal 47 (1998): 367-77.
-. “Habeas Corpus and Slavery in Nova Scotia: R v Hecht Ex Parte Rachel, 1798.” University of New Brunswick Law Journal 44 (1995) 179-209.
-. “‘Nowhere to Be Seen’: Blacks as an Invisible Minority at the Reverend James Macgregor Sesquicentenary Celebration of 1936.” Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society 40, no. 1 (May 1998): 5-30.
-. “Slavery and the Judges of Loyalist Nova Scotia.” University of New Brunswick Law Journal 43 (1994): 73-134.
-. “Stephen Blucke: The Perils of Being a ‘White Negro’ in Loyalist Nova Scotia.” Nova Scotia Historical Review 11 (1991) 129-34.
Calliste, Agnes. “Race, Gender and Canadian Immigration Policy: Blacks from the Caribbean, 1900-1932.” Journal of Canadian Studies 28, no. 4 (Winter 1993/1994): 131-48.
Chopra, Ruma. “Maroons and Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia, 1796-1800.” Acadiensis 46, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2017): 5-23.
Clarke, George Elliott. “AAR Centennial Roundtable: CANTICLES: Hymns of the African Baptists of Nova Scotia.”
Journal of the American Academy of Religion 82, no. 3 (September 2014): 591-605.
doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfu032.
-. “Africana Canadiana: A Primary Bibliography of Literature by African-Canadian Authors, 1785-1996, in English, French, and Translation.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 28, no. 3 (January 1996): 106-209.
-. “An Anatomy of the Originality of African-Canadian Thought.”
CLR James Journal 20, nos. 1-2 (Fall 2014): 65-82.
doi:10.5840/clrjames2014983.
-. “Anna Minerva Henderson: An Afro-New Brunswick Response to Canadian (Modernist) Poetry.” Canadian Literature 189 (Summer 2006): 32-48.
-. “The Death and Rebirth of Africadian Nationalism (Remember Africville).” New Maritimes 11, no. 5 (May/June 1993): 20-8.
-. “Métis and/or Afro-Métis: Who Do You Think You Are?” Canadian Diversity 16, no. 4 (2019): 41-5.
-. “Must all Blackness be American? Locating Canada in Borden’s ‘Tightrope Time,’ or Nationalizing Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 28, no. 3 (January 1996): 56-71.
-. “Rocky Jones: The Politics of Passion (Interview).” New Maritimes 5, no. 9 (May 1987): 4-7.
-. “Syl Cheney-Coker’s Nova Scotia or the Limits of Pan Africanism.” Dalhousie Review 77, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 283-96.
-. “‘This is no hearsay’: Reading the Canadian Slave Narratives.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 43, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 7-32.
-. “White Judges, Black Hoods: Hanging-as-Lynching in Three Canadian True-Crime Texts.” Canadian Law Library Review 41, no. 2 (2016): 10-19.
-. “White N**, Black Slaves: Slavery, Race, and Class in T. C. Haliburton’s ‘The Clockmaker’.” Nova Scotia Historical Review 14, no. 1 (June 1994): 13-40.
Conlin, Dan. “A Slave Ship Made Captive: The Schooner Severn.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 2 (1999): 203-12.
Cottreau-Robins, Catherine M.A. “Searching for the Enslaved in Nova Scotia’s Loyalist Landscape.” Acadiensis 43, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2014): 125-36.
Cottreau-Robins, Katie. “The Loyalist Plantation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Informing Early African-Nova Scotian Settlement.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 17 (September 2014): 32-56.
Cousins, Leone Banks. “Woman of the year – 1842: The Story of Eliza Ruggles Raymond and Mutiny on the Slave Ship Amistad.” Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly 6 (December 1976): 349-73.
Culligan, Mark, and Katrin MacPhee. “Racism and Relief Distribution in the Aftermath of the Halifax Explosion.” Journal of Law and Social Policy 31 (2019): 1-33.
Davis, C. Mark. “Recent Black Maritime Studies.” Acadiensis 23, no. 2 (Spring 1994): 148-54.
Davis, Morris. “Result of Personality Tests Given to Negroes in the Northern and Southern United States and in Halifax, Canada.” Phylon 25 (Winter 1964): 362-8.
Dillard, J.L. “The History of Black English in Nova Scotia: A First Step.” Revista/Review Interamericana 2 (Winter 1973): 507-20.
-. “The West African Day-Name in Nova Scotia.” Names 19, no. 4 (December 1971): 81-92.
Donovan, Kenneth. “Female Slaves as Sexual Victims in Île Royale.” Acadiensis 43, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2014): 147-56.
-. “A Nominal List of Slaves and Their Owners in Ile Royale, 1713-1760.” Nova Scotia Historical Review 16 (1996): 151-62.
-. “Slavery and Freedom in Atlantic Canada’s African Diaspora: Introduction.” Acadiensis 43, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2014): 109-15.
-. “Slaves and Their Owners in Ile Royale, 1713-1760.” Acadiensis 25, no. 1 (Autumn 1995): 3-32.
-. “Slaves in Cape Breton, 1713-1815.” Directions: Canadian Race Relations Foundation 4, no. 1 (Summer 2007): 44-5.
-. “Slaves in Île Royale, 1713-1758.” French Colonial History 5 (2004): 25-42.
Duncanson, John V. “Benjamin Jackson (1835-1915).” Nova Scotia Genealogist 5, no. 1 (1987): 10-11.
Ferguson, Mary (DeLorey). “1794 Poll Tax Rolls for Tracadie, Pomquet and Havre Boucher, Sydney (Now Antigonish County, N.S.).” Nova Scotia Genealogist 10, no. 1 (1992): 24-5.
Fergusson, Charles B. “William Hall, V.C.” Journal of Education 17 (1967): 15-21.
Fingard, Judith. “From Sea to Rail: Black Transportation Workers and Their Families in Halifax, c. 1870-1916.” Acadiensis 24, no. 2 (Spring 1995): 49-64.
-. “Loss of Social Cohesion in Early 20th Century Africville.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 14 (September 2011): 156-69.
-. “Race and Respectability in Victorian Halifax.” Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History 20, no. 2 (May 1992): 169-95.
-. “Rescue and Reward: Corporal George Liston’s Heroism on the Halifax Waterfront.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 2 (September 1999): 145-54.
-. “A Tale of Two Preachers: Henry Hartley, Francis Robinson, and the Black Churches of the Maritimes.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 5 (September 2002): 23-43.
Fralic-Brown, Janice. “A ‘Black Loyalist’ in Cape Breton.” Nova Scotia Genealogist 18, no. 2 (2000): 77-80.
Freedman, Jim. “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel, and Why Not Every Man.” Dalhousie Review 77, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 207-225 [a meeting of the Nova Scotia Baptist Association of Weymouth Falls, NS, 1883].
Fyfe, Christopher. “Thomas Peters: History and Legend.” Sierra Leone Studies 9 (1953): 4-13.
Grant, John N. “The 1821 Emigration of Black Nova Scotians to Trinidad.” Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly 2, no. 1 (September 1972): 283-92.
-. “Black Immigrants into Nova Scotia, 1776-1815.” Journal of Negro History 58, no. 3 (July 1973): 253-70.
-. “Dempsey Jordan (c. 1771/72-1859): Teacher, Preacher, Farmer, Community Leader, and Loyalist Settler at Guysborough and Tracadie.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 14 (September 2011): 72-90.
-. “Early Blacks of Nova Scotia.” Journal of Education, 6th ser., 5 (Fall 1977): 15-30.
-. “Edward Mitchell Bannister: The New Brunswick Years.” Arts Atlantic 20, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 17-23.
Grant, John Webster. “From Slavery to Freedom: The Life of David George, Pioneer Black Baptist Minister.”
Church History 64, no. 4 (December 1995): 742-3.
doi:10.2307/3168922.
Green, Jeffrey P. “British Newspapers as Source Material: The Case of James Douglass Bohee (1844-1897).” Black Music Research Newsletter 7, no. 1 (Fall 1984): 4-5.
Griffin-Allwood, Philip G.A. “The Reverend James Thomas and ‘Union of All God’s People’: Nova Scotian African Baptist Piety, Unity, and Division.” Nova Scotia Historical Review 14 (1994): 153-68.
Haliburton, Gordon. “The Nova Scotia Settlers of 1792.” Sierra Leone Studies 9 (December 1957): 16-25.
Hamilton, Sylvia. “Film as a Medium to Reveal Research about Black Women’s Lives.” Atlantis 20, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 1995): 163-7.
-. “A Glimpse of Edith Clayton.” Fireweed 18 (Winter/Spring 1984): 18-20.
-. “Our Mothers Grand and Great: Black Women in Nova Scotia.” Canadian Women’s Studies 4, no. 2 (Winter 1982): 45-8.
-. “When and Where I Enter: History, Film, and Memory.” Acadiensis 41, no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2012): 3-16.
Hamilton, Sylvia, and Marie Hamilton. “Mothers and Daughters: A Delicate Partnership.” Fireweed 18 (Winter/Spring 1984): 64-8.
Harris, Jennifer. “Black Life in a Nineteenth Century New Brunswick Town.” Journal of Canadian Studies 46, no. 1 (Winter 2012): 138-66.
-. “‘Ushered into the Kitchen’: Lalia Halfkenny, Instructor of English and Elocution at a 19th-Century African American Women’s College.” Acadiensis 41, no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2012): 45-65.
Harvey, Evelyn B. “The Negro Loyalists.” Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly 1 (1971): 181-202.
Hatchard, Keith A. “Slaves and the Apple Industry.” Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly 9 (1979): 164-75.
Hazen, Hazel C. “The Story of New Brunswick’s Black Settlers: 1700-1820.” Journal of the New Brunswick Museum (1979): 44-53.
Heath, Gordon L. “The Wartime Diaries of Canadian Baptist Military Chaplin William H. White, 1917-1918.” Baptist Quarterly 49, no. 4 (2018): 165-81.
Henry, Frances. “Black Music in the Maritimes.” Canadian Folk Music Journal 3 (1975): 12-13.
Historicus [pseud.]. “Eve and Suke.” New Brunswick Magazine 3, no. 5 (November 1899): 221-4.
Holman, H.T. “Slaves and Servants on Prince Edward Island: The Case of Jupiter Wise.” Acadiensis 12, no. 1 (Autumn 1982): 100-4.
Howard, Brianne, and Sarah E.K. Smith. “‘The Little Black School House’: Revealing the Histories of Canada’s Segregated Schools – A Conversation with Sylvia Hamilton.” Canadian Review of American Studies 41, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 63-73.
Jack, I. Allen. “The Loyalists and Slavery in New Brunswick.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada 4 (1898): 137-85.
Johnston, John. “Research Note: Mathieu Da Costa along the Coasts of Nova Scotia: Some Possibilities.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 4 (2001): 152-64.
Kirk-Greene, Anthony. “David George: The Nova Scotian Experience.” Sierra Leone Studies 14 (1960): 93-120.
Kup, A.P. “John Clarkson and the Sierra Leone Company.” Journal of African Historical Studies 5 (1972): 203-20.
Leblanc, Roméo. “The 200-Year Quest of Nova Scotia’s Blacks.” Canadian Speeches 11, no. 7 (November 1997): 22-3.
Lennox, Brian. “Nova Scotia’s Forgotten Boxing Heroes: Roy Mitchell and Terrence ‘Tiger’ Warrington.” Nova Scotia Historical Review 12, no. 2 (July 1992): 32-46.
Lockett, James P. “The Deportation of the Maroons of Trelawny Town to Nova Scotia, Then Back to Africa.” Journal of Black History 30, no. 1 (September 1999): 5-14.
Loo, Tina. “Africville and the Dynamics of State Power in Postwar Canada.” Acadiensis 39, no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2010): 23-47.
-. “The View from Jacob Street: Reframing Urban Renewal in Postwar Halifax.” Acadiensis 48, no. 2 (Autumn 2019): 5-42.
Lubka, Nancy. “Ferment in Nova Scotia.” Queen’s Quarterly 76, no. 2 (Summer 1969): 213-28.
MacDonald, Edward, and Alan MacEachern. “Unwanted Guests: Postwar Tourism and Racism on Prince Edward Island.” Island Magazine 82 (Fall/Winter 2017): 35-8.
MacDonald, Sharon M.H. “Researching African Nova Scotian Women Educators.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 23 (2020): 92-5.
MacLeod-Leslie, Heather. “Archaeology and Atlantic Canada’s African Diaspora.” Acadiensis 43, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2014): 137-45.
Mannette, Joy A. “Stark Remnants of Blackpast: Thinking on Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in 1780s Nova Scotia.” Alternate Routes 7 (1984): 102-33.
May, Cedrick. “John Marrant and the Narrative Construction of an Early Black Methodist Evangelical.”
African American Review 38, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 553-70.
doi:10.2307/4134417.
McCarthy, Mary Louise. “View of Mixed-Race Identity Black and Maliseet: My Personal Narrative.” Acadiensis 43, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2014): 117-24.
McKay, Ian. “Race, White Settler Liberalism, and the Nova Scotia Archives, 1931-1976.” Acadiensis 49, no. 2 (Autumn 2020): 5-33.
McNairn, Jeffrey L. “British Travellers, Nova Scotia’s Black Communities, and the Problem of Freedom to 1860.”
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 19, no. 1 (2009): 27-56.
doi.org/10.7202/037425ar.
McNeil, Daniel. “Afro (Americo) Centricity in Black (American) Nova Scotia.”
Canadian Review of American Studies 35, no. 1 (January 2005): 57-85.
doi:10.3138/CRAS-s035-01-03.
-. “Finding a Home While Crossing Boundaries: Black Identities in Halifax and Liverpool.” International Journal of Canadian Studies 31 (March 2005): 197-235.
Moreau, Bernice. “Adult Education Among Black Nova Scotians, 1750-1945.” Journal of Education 400 (April 1987): 29-25.
-. “Black Nova Scotia Literature: A Select Bibliography.” Journal of Education 400 (April 1987): 46-50.
-. “Black Nova Scotian Women’s Experience of Educational Violence in the Early 1900s: A Case of Colour Contusion.” Dalhousie Review 77, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 178.
Morrison, James H. “Oral History as Identity: The African-Canadian Experience.” Oral History Forum 21-22 (2001-2002): 49-60.
Morton, Suzanne. “Separate Spheres in a Separate World: African-Nova Scotian Women in Nineteenth-Century Halifax.” Acadiensis 22, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 61-83.
Mount, Graeme S. “Maritime Methodists and Black Bermudians, 1851-1870.” Nova Scotia Historical Review 4, no. 2 (1984): 39-50.
Mount, Graeme S., and Joan E. Mount. “Bishop John Inglis and his Attitude toward Race in Bermuda in the Era of Emancipation.” Canadian Church Historical Society Journal 25 (April 1983): 25-32.
Nelson, Jennifer J. “‘Panthers or Thieves’: Racialized Knowledge and the Regulation of Africville.”
Journal of Canadian Studies 45, no. 1 (Winter 2011): 121-42.
doi:10.3138/jcs.45.1.121.
Newman, Debra Lynn. “An Inspection Roll of Negroes Taken on Board Sundry Vessels at Staten Island Bound for Nova Scotia Communities.” Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 1 (1960): 72-9.
Norton, Mary Beth. “The Fate of Some Black Loyalists of the American Revolution.” Journal of Negro History 58 (1973): 402-26.
Oliver, William P. “Cultural Progress of the Negro in Nova Scotia.” Dalhousie Review 29 (1949): 293-300.
-. “The Negro in Nova Scotia.” Journal of Education 13 (1964): 18-21.
Pachai, Bridglal. “The African Presence in Nova Scotia.” Dalhousie Review 68, nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 1988): 137-43.
Punch, Terrence M. “Black People Vaccinated at Barrington Township.” Nova Scotia Genealogist 4, no. 2 (1986): 97-98.
-. “The Black Population of Preston, Halifax County in 1847.” Nova Scotia Genealogist 4, no. 1 (1986): 39-40.
-.“A Loyalist Document – Return of Negroes and Their Families, Annapolis Co.” Nova Scotia Genealogist 1, no. 1 (1983): 20-1.
-. “Petition of the Coloured Population of Hammonds Plain.” Nova Scotia Genealogist 5, no. 1 (1987): 40.
Rawlyk, George A. “The Guysborough Negroes: A Study in Isolation.” Dalhousie Review 48, no. 1 (Spring 1968): 24-36.
Raymond, W.O. “The Negro in New Brunswick.” Neith 1 (1903): 27-33.
Reid, Jennifer I.M. “Points of Contact: A Wachian Reappraisal of the African Orthodox Church and the Early Steel Industry in Sydney, Nova Scotia.”
Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 30, nos. 3-4 (September 2001): 323-37.
doi.org/10.1177/000842980103000305.
Reid, John G. “The Life and Times of the Nova Scotia Cricket League, 1906-1914.” Acadiensis 49, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 69-122.
Remes, Jacob A.C. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Africville.”
African American Review 51, no. 3 (Fall 2018): 223-31.
doi:10.1353/afa.2018.0034.
Riddell, William Renwick. “The Baptism of Slaves in Prince Edward Island.” Journal of Negro History 4 (1919): 372-95.
-. “Slavery in Canada.” Journal of Negro History 5 (1920): 261-77.
Robertson, Allen B. “Bondage and Freedom: Apprentices, Servants, and Slaves in Colonial Nova Scotia.” Collections of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 44 (1995): 57-69.
-. “From Slavery to Freedom: The Life of David George, Pioneer Black Baptist Minister.” Nova Scotia Historical Review 13, no. 1 (January 1993): 157-76.
Rommel-Ruiz, Bryan. “The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile after the American Revolution.” New York History 78, no. 3 (July 1997): 346-49.
-. “Colonizing the Black Atlantic: The African Colonization Movements in Postwar Rhode Island and Nova Scotia.” Slavery & Abolition 27, no. 3 (December 2006): 349-65.
Rosenberg, Neil V. “Canadian Newspapers as Source Material: Further Notes on James Douglass Bohee (1844-1897).” Black Music Research Bulletin 10 (Fall 1988): 15-17.
-. “Ethnicity and Class: Black Country Musicians in the Maritimes.” Journal of Canadian Studies 23, nos. 1-2 (April 1988): 138-56.
Saney, Isaac. “The Black Nova Scotian Odyssey: A Chronology.” Race & Class 40, no. 1 (July 1998): 78-91.
Schatvet Ullmann, Helen. “Black Loyalists, Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Communities.” New England Historical & Genealogical Register 168, no. 670 (April 2014): 160.
Sehatzadeh, Adrienne Lucas. “A Retrospective on the Strengths of African Nova Scotian Communities: Closing Ranks to Survive.”
Journal of Black Studies 38, no. 3 (January 2008): 407-12.
doi:10.1177/0021934707306574.
Shadd, Adrienne L. “Dual Labour Markets in ‘Core’ and ‘Periphery’ Regions of Canada: The Position of Black Males in Ontario and Nova Scotia.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 19, no. 2 (May 1987): 91-109.
Sissay, Hassan. “Black Loyalists in Search of the Promised Land.” UMOJA: A Scholarly Journal of Black Studies 1 (1977): 47-54.
Slaunwhite, Stefanie R. “Reflections on Racism: Oral Accounts of Integration at Graham Creighton High School, Cherry Brook, Nova Scotia.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 23 (2020): 22-42.
Smith, Gene. “Black Nova Scotia.” American Legacy: Magazine of African-American History and Culture 9, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 24-8.
Spray, William. “The Settlement of the Black Refugees in New Brunswick, 1815-1836.” Acadiensis 6, no. 2 (Spring 1977): 64-79.
States, David W. “Genealogy of the States Family of Kings, Cumberland, and Hants Counties, Nova Scotia.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 9 (2006): 147-61.
-. “William Hall, V.C., of Horton Bluff, Nova Scotia: Nineteenth-Century Naval Hero.” Collections of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 44 (January 1995): 71-81.
Sutherland, David. “‘Race Prejudice Unfortunately Dies Hard’: The 1929 Proposal to Return Racial Segregation to Halifax’s Public Schools.” With the assistance of Judith Fingard and David States. Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 20 (September 2017): 68-73.
Sutherland, David A. “Race Relations in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during the Mid-Victorian Quest for Reform.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 7, no. 1 (1996): 35-54.
Sutherland, David A., and David W. States. “Precursor to Viola Desmond: Henry Bundy Visits Dartmouth’s Dundas Theatre.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 22 (2019): 97-102.
Taparata, Evan. “‘Refugees as You Call Them’: The Politics of Refugee Recognition in the Nineteenth-Century United States.”
Journal of American Ethnic History 38, no. 2 (Winter 2019): 9-35.
doi:10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.2.0009.
Thibodeau, Felix. “Les noirs à la Baie Sainte-Marie.” Bulletin – Société historique acadienne de la Baie Sainte-Marie 9 (1985): 14-16.
Troxler, Carole Watterson. “Re-Enslavement of Black Loyalists: Mary Postell in South Carolina, East Florida, and Nova Scotia.” Acadiensis 37, no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2008): 70-85.
Tudor, Kathleen. “David George: Black Loyalist.” Nova Scotia Historical Review 3, no. 1 (1983): 71-82.
Vernon, C.W. “The Deed of Sale on a Slave at Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1779.” Acadiensis 3 (October 1903): 253-4.
Walker, Barrington. “Exhuming the Archive: Black Slavery and Freedom in the Maritimes and Beyond.” Acadiensis 46, no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2017): 223-41.
Walker, James W. St. G. “Allegories and Orientations in African-Canadian Historiography: The Spirit of Africville.” Dalhousie Review 77, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 155-77.
-. “Blacks as American Loyalists: The Slaves’ War for Independence.” Historical Reflections 2, no. 1 (Summer 1975): 51-67.
-. “Myth, History, and Revisionism: The Black Loyalists Revisited.” Acadiensis 29, no. 1 (Autumn 1999): 88-105.
Walls, A.F. “The Nova Scotia Settlers and Their Religion.” Sierra Leone Bulletin of Religion 1 (1959): 19-31.
Walters, Reakask. “Against Amnesia: African Nova Scotia Women’s Generational Leadership in Civil Rights Organizing, 1950-79.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 32, no. 2 (2020): 383-409.
Whitcomb, Diane E. “On Dembo’s Trail: Black Ancestry on Prince Edward Island.” P.E.I. Genealogical Society Newsletter 20, no. 3 (September 1996): 1.
-. “On Dembo’s Trail: Black Ancestry on Prince Edward Island Part Two.” P.E.I. Genealogical Society Newsletter 20, no. 4 (November 1996): 18-20.
White, Jay. “Portia White’s Spiritual Winter.” Collections of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 44 (January 1995): 1-14.
Whitfield, Harvey Amani. “African and New World African Immigration to Mainland Nova Scotia, 1749-1816.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 7 (2004): 102-11.
-. “The African Diaspora in Atlantic Canada: History, Historians, and Historiography.” Acadiensis 46, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2017): 213-32.
-. “Black Refugee Communities in Early Nineteenth Century Nova Scotia.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 6 (2003): 92-109.
-. The Development of Black Refugee Identity in Nova Scotia, 1813-1850.” Left History 10, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 9-31.
-. “Reviewing Blackness in Atlantic Canada and the African Atlantic Canadian Diaspora.” Acadiensis 37, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 130-9.
-. “Slavery in English Nova Scotia, 1750-1810.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 13 (September 2010): 23-40.
-. “The Struggle over Slavery in the Maritime Colonies.” Acadiensis 41, no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2012): 17-44.
-. “‘We can do as we like here’: An Analysis of Self-Assertion and Agency among Black Refugees in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1813-1821.” Acadiensis 32, no. 1 (Autumn 2002): 29-49.
-. “White Archives, Black Fragments: Problems and Possibilities in Telling the Lives of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes.” Canadian Historical Review 101, no. 3 (September 2020): 323-45.
Whitfield, Harvey Amani. “Slave Law and Slave Life on Prince Edward Island, 1763-1825.” With Barry Cahill. Acadiensis 38, no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2009): 29-51.
Williams, Kimberly. “Black Heritage is Their Future.” Good Times 15, no. 3 (March 2004): 73-4.
Winks, Robin. “Negroes in the Maritimes: An Introductory Survey.” Dalhousie Review 48, no. 4 (Winter 1968-69): 453-71.
-. “Negro School Segregation in Ontario and Nova Scotia.” Canadian Historical Review 50, no. 2 (June 1969): 164-91.
Young Jr., Alexander. “The Boston Tarbaby [Sam Langford].” Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly 4, no. 3 (September 1974): 277-98.
Zellars, Rachel. “Too Tedious to Mention: Pondering the Border, Black Atlantic, and Public Schooling in Colonial Canada.” Left History 23, no.1 (Spring/Summer 2019): 62-93.
Chapters
Armstrong, J.G. “The Unwelcome Sacrifice: A Black Unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1917–19.” In Ethnic Armies: Polyethnic Armed Forces from the Time of the Habsburgs to the Age of the Superpowers, edited by N. F. Dreisziger, 178-97. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990.
Backhouse, Constance. “‘Bitterly Disappointed’ at the Spread of ‘Colour-Bar Tactics’: Viola Desmond’s Challenge to Racial Segregation, Nova Scotia 1946.” In The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays, edited by Barrington Walker, 101-66. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2012.
Bell, D.G., J. Barry Cahill, and Harvey Amani Whitfield. “Slavery and Slave Law in the Maritimes.” In Walker, African Canadian Legal Odyssey, 363-420.
Bernard, Candace, and Wanda Thomas Bernard. “Learning from the Past / Visions for the Future: The Black Community and Child Welfare in Nova Scotia.” In Community Work Approaches to Child Welfare, edited by Brian Wharf, 116-29. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2002.
Bernard, Wanda Thomas, and Judith Fingard. “Black Women at Work: Race, Family, and Community in Greater Halifax.” In Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work and Social Policy in Post 1945 Halifax, edited by Judith Fingard and Janet Guildford, 189-225. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Bernard, Wanda Thomas, and Mary P. Vincer. “Africville: The Uprooting of Citizens from their Territory in Modern Day Halifax.” In Reconfiguring Citizenship: Social Exclusion and Diversity within Inclusive Citizenship Practices, edited by Lena Dominelli and Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha, 45-54. Surrey, BC: Ashgate Publishing, 2014.
Bonner, Claudine. “‘Likely to become a public charge’: Examining Black Migration to Eastern Canada, 1900-1930.” In Unsettling the Great White North: African Canadian History, edited by Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi. Toronto: University Toronto Press (forthcoming).
Bonner, Claudine, and Wanda Thomas Bernard. “Labouring for Change: Narratives of African-Nova Scotian Women, 1919-1990.” In Women in the “Promised Land”: Essays in African Canadian History, edited by Nina Reid-Maroney, Ébanda de B’béri Boulou, and Wanda Thomas Bernard, 161-80. Toronto: Women’s Press, 2018.
Cahill, Barry. “The Antislavery Polemic of the Reverend James MacGregor: Canada’s Proto-abolitionist as ‘Radical Evangelical’.” In The Contribution of Presbyterianism to the Maritime Provinces of Canada, edited by Charles H.H. Scobie and George A. Rawlyk, 131-43. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997.
-. “‘Colchester men’: The Pro-Slavery Presbyterian Witness of the Reverends Daniel Cock of Truro and David Smith of Londonderry.” In Planter Links: Community and Culture in Colonial Nova Scotia, edited by Margaret Conrad and Barry Moody, 133-44. Planter Studies, No. 4. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 2001.
-. “Mediating a Scottish Enlightenment Ideal: The Presbyterian Dissenter Attack on Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia.” In Myth, Migration, and the Making of Memory: Scotia and Nova Scotia, c. 1700-1990, edited by Marjory Harper and Michael E. Vance, 189-201. Halifax: Fernwood, 1999.
Cahill, J. Barry. “Constructing an “Imperial Pan-Africanist”: Henry Sylvester Williams as a University Law Student in Canada.” In Walker, African Canadian Legal Odyssey, 84-100.
Calliste, Agnes. “Blacks’ Struggle for Education Equity in Nova Scotia.” In Innovations in Black Education in Canada, edited by Vincent D’Oyley, 25-40. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1994.
Clairmont, Donald H., and Dennis W. Magill. “Africville: Community Transformation and the Emergence of a Deviance Service Centre.” In Deviant Designations: Crime, Law and Deviance in Canada, edited by Thomas Fleming and L.A. Visano, 320-32. Toronto: Butterworth, 1983.
-. “Nova Scotia Blacks: Marginality in a Depressed Region.” In Canada: A Sociological Profile, edited by W.E. Mann, 177-86. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1971.
Clairmont, Donald H., and Fred Wein. “Blacks and Whites: The Nova Scotia Race Relations Experience.” In Banked Fires – The Ethnics of Nova Scotia, edited by Douglas F. Campbell, 141-82. Port Credit, ON: Scribblers’ Press, 1978.
Clarke, George Elliott. “The Birth and Rebirth of Africadian Literature.” In Down East: Critical Essays on Contemporary Maritime Canadian Literaturem, edited by Wolfgang Hochbruck and James O. Taylor, 55-80. Trier, GD: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1996.
-. “The Career of Black English: A Literary Sketch.” In The English Language in Nova Scotia, edited by Lilian Falk and Margaret Harry, 125-45. Lockeport, NS: Roseway Publishing, 1999.
-. “Gospel as Protest: The African-Nova Scotia Spiritual and the Lyrics of Delvina Bernard.” In Rebel Musics: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making, edited by Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble, 108-19. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2003.
-. “Green Street, Newport Station, Three Mile Plains.” In Many Lives Mark This Place: John Hartman Paints Canadian Writers in the Landscapes That Inspire Them, with Reflections by the Writers, edited by John Hartman, 104-5, 107. Vancouver, Toronto, and Woodstock (ON): Figure 1 Publishing, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, and Woodstock Art Gallery, 2019.
-. “Halifax, Hiroshima, and the Romance of Disaster.” In Shaping an Agenda for Atlantic Canada, edited by John G. Reid and Donald J. Savoie, 83-103. Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2011.
-. “‘Indigenous Blacks’: An Irreconcilable Identity?” In Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity, edited by Ashok Mathur, Jonathan Dewar, and Mike DeGagne, 397-406. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2011.
-. “Must We Burn Haliburton?” In The Haliburton Bi-centenary Chaplet: Papers Presented at the 1996 Thomas Raddall Symposium, edited by Richard A. Davies, 1-40. Wolfville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 1997.
-. “Toward a Conservative Modernity: Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Acadian and Africadian Poetry.” In Cultural Identities in Canadian Literature / Identités culturelles dans la littérature canadienne, edited by Bénédicte Mauguière. New York: Peter Lang, 1998 [a reprint of article first published in the Revue Frontenac / Frontenac Review, 9 (1992): 45-63].
Cooper, Afua. “Unsilencing the Past: Memorializing Four Hundred Years of African Canadian History.” In Multiple Lenses: Voices from the Diaspora Located in Canada, edited by David Divine, 11-22. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
Cottreau-Robins, Catherine M.A. “Exploring the Landscape of Slavery in Loyalist Era Nova Scotia.” In The Consequences of Loyalism: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Calhoon, edited by Rebecca Brannon and Joseph S. Moore, 122-32. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2019.
Cottreau-Robins, Katie. “Excavation of Seaview African Baptist Church, Africville.” In Underground Halifax: Stories of Archaeology in the City, edited by Paul Erickson, 101-7. Halifax: Nimbus, 2005.
Creighton, Helen. “Collecting Songs of Nova Scotia Blacks.” In Folklore Studies in Honour of Herbert Halpert: A Festschrift, edited by Kenneth S. Goldstein and Neil V. Rosenberg, 137-44. St. John’s: Memorial University, 1980.
Davidson, Arnold E. “Whylah Falls.” In Hochbruck and Taylor, Down East, 264-75.
Hamilton, Sylvia. “Naming Names, Naming Ourselves: A Survey of Early Black Women in Nova Scotia.” In “We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us Up”: Essays in African Canadian Women’s History, edited by Peggy Bristow, Dionne Brand, Linda Carty, Afua Cooper, Sylvia Hamilton, and Adrienne Shadd, 13-40. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
-. “Stories from the Little Black School House.” In Mathur, Dewar, and DeGagne, Cultivating Canada, 91-112.
-. “The Women at the Well: African Baptist Women Organize.” In Reid-Maroney, Boulou, and Bernard, Women in the “Promised Land”: Essays in African Canadian History, 98-115.
Harris, F.W. “The Negro Population of the County of Annapolis.” Paper read at annual meeting of the Historical Association of Annapolis Royal, NS, 11 November 1920 and printed in The Romance of Old Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia, ed. Charlotte Isabella Perkins, 1925; rpt. Annapolis Royal, NS: Historical Association of Annapolis Royal, 1985, 60-8.
Hartlen, Gary. “Bound for Nova Scotia: Slaves in the Planter Migration, 1759-1800.” In Making Adjustments: Change and Continuity in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759-1800, edited by Margaret Conrad, 123-8. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1991.
Jones, Burnley. “Nova Scotia Blacks: A Quest for Place in the Canadian Mosaic.” In Black Presence in Multi-Ethnic Canada, edited by Vincent D’Oyley, 81-96. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1978.
MacKenzie, A.A. “The Irish and the West Indians in Nova Scotia.” In Work, Ethnicity, and Oral History, edited by Dorothy E. Moore and James H. Morrison, 43-8. Halifax: International Education Centre, 1988.
Mannette, Joy A. “Blackness and Maritime Studies.” In Teaching Maritime Studies, edited by Phillip Buckner, 80-95. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1986.
McCurdy, Howard. “Africville: Environmental Racism.” In Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice, 2nd ed., edited by Laura Westra and Bill E. Lawson, 95-112. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
Moreau, Bernice. “Black Nova Scotian Women’s Schooling and Citizenship: An Education in Violence.” In Contesting Canadian Citizenship: Historical Readings, edited by Robert Adamoski, Dorothy E. Chunn, and Robert Menzies, 293-311. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2002.
Morris, Kimberley Bernard. “The Symbolic Influence of Music and Poetry on Black Women.” In Moore and Morrison, Work, Ethnicity, and Oral History, 33-9.
Nelson, Charmaine. “‘Ran away from her master . . . a negroe girl named Thursday’: Examining Evidence of Punishment, Isolation, and Trauma in Nova Scotia and Quebec Fugitive Slave Advertisements.” In Legal Violence and the Limits of the Law, edited by Joshua Nichols and Amy Swiffen, 43-74. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Nelson, Jennifer J. “The Space of Africville: Creating, Regulating, and Remembering the Urban ‘Slum’.” In Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping White Settler Society, edited by Sherene H. Razak, 211-32. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002.
Nieves, Angel David. “Memories of Africville: Urban Renewal, Reparations, and the Africadian Diaspora.” In Black Geographies and the Politics of Place, edited by Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods, 82-9. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2007.
Niven, Laird, and Stephen A. Davis. “Birchtown: The History and Material Culture of an Expatriate African American Community.” In Moving On: Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World, edited by John W. Pulis, 59-84. New York: Garland, 1999.
Pachai, Bridglal. “Factors that Circumscribed Economic Opportunities for Black Nova Scotians.” In Moore and Morrison, Work, Ethnicity, and Oral History, 25-33.
Smardz Frost, Karolyn. “Planting Slavery in Nova Scotia’s Promised Land, 1759-1775.” In Johnson and Aladejebi, Unsettling the Great White North (forthcoming).
Spray, W.A. “Black Settlers in New Brunswick: Their Origins and Their Problems.” Abstract for a Colloquium on Maritime Provinces History, 59-61. Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1972.
States, David. “Researching the Social History and Genealogy of Blacks in Nova Scotia.” In Moore and Morrison, Work, Ethnicity, and Oral History, 13-15.
Steeves, David. “Maniacal Murderer or Death Dealing Car: The Case of Daniel Perry Sampson, 1933-1935.” In Walker, African Canadian Legal Odyssey, 201-42.
Thomas, Carolyn. “The Black Church and the Black Women.” In Canadian Black Studies, edited by Bridglal Pachai, 234-8. Halifax: Saint Mary’s University International Education Centre, 1979.
Troxler, Carole Watterson. “Hidden from History: Black Loyalists at Country Harbour, Nova Scotia.” In Pulis, Moving On: Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World, 39-58.
Walker, James W. St. G. “Black Confrontation in Sixties Halifax.” In Debating Dissent: Canada and the 1960s, edited by Lara Campbell, Dominique Clément, and Greg Kealey, 173-91. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
-. “Black History in the Maritimes: Major Themes and Teaching Strategies.” In Buckner, Teaching Maritime Studies, 96-107.
-. “The Establishment of a Free Black Community in Nova Scotia, 1783-1840.” In Africa Diaspora: Interpretive Essays, edited by Martin L. Kilson and Robert I. Rothberg, 205-36. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976.
Whitfield, Harvey Amani. “Runaway Advertisements and Social Disorder in the Maritimes: A Preliminary Study.” In Unrest, Social Violence, and Social Disorder, edited by Elizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. See, 214-35. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.
-. “Slave Life in the Canadian Maritime Colonies.” In Slavery, Memory, Citizenship, edited by Paul E. Lovejoy and Vanessa S. Oliveira, 1-26. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2016.
Williams, Savannah. “The Role of the African United Baptist Association in the Development of Indigenous Afro-Canadians in Nova Scotia, 1782-1978.” In Repent and Believe: The Baptist Experience in Maritime Canada, edited by Barry Moody. Hantsport, NS: Lancelot Press for Acadia Divinity College, 1980.
-. “Two Hundred Years in the Development of Afro-Canadians in Nova Scotia 1782-1982.” In Two Nations, Many Cultures: Ethnic Groups in Canada, edited by Jean Leonard Elliott, 444-61. Scarborough, ON: Prentice-Hall, 1983.
Dissertations/Theses
Baglole, Matthew. “‘All the Messy Details’: Two Case Studies of Activist Mobilization in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1960-1982.” PhD diss., University of New Brunswick, 2002.
Barkley, Jacqueline. “An Examination of the Attitudes and Knowledge-Base of Non-Black Social Workers, Counselors, and Social Service Workers regarding the Black Community in an Urban Area of Nova Scotia.” MSW thesis, Dalhousie University, 1986.
Beaton, Sarah Margaret. “A Study of Ten Families Relocated from Africville.” MA thesis, Maritime School of Social Work and St. Francis Xavier University, 1969.
Bonner, Claudine. “Industrial Island – African-Caribbean Migration to Cape Breton, Canada, 1900-1930.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 2017.
Bourgeois, Michael. “The Politics of the Africville Apology.” MA major research paper, University of New Brunswick, 2011.
Brookbank, C.R. “Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia: A Preliminary Sociological Survey.” MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949.
Browne, Joan A. “A Comparative Study of Socio-Economic Patterns in Black Nova Scotia Communities.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 1982.
Bundy, Jessica. “‘Nova Scotia’s Best Kept Secret’: African Nova Scotian Perceptions of the Police in Digby.” MA thesis, Acadia University, 2016.
Byrd, Alexander Xavier. “Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century World of Olaudah Equiano.” PhD diss., Duke University, 2001 [relates in part to the Sierra Leone-Nova Scotia migration].
Chute, Sarah Elizabeth. “Bound to Slavery: Economic and Biographical Connections to Atlantic Slavery between the Maritimes and West Indies after 1783.” MA thesis, University of Vermont, 2021.
Cole, Gibril Raschid. “Embracing Islam and African Traditions in a British Colony: The Muslim Krio of Sierra Leone, 1787-1910.” PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2000.
Cottreau-Robins, Catherine. “Domestic architecture of the Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia, 1783-1800.” M. Arch., Dalhousie University, 2002.
Crichlow, Wesley Eddison Aylesworth. “Buller Men and Batty Bwoys: Hidden Men in Toronto and Halifax Black communities.” PhD diss., University of Toronto, 1998.
Dorrington, Adriane Eartha Lenora. “Nova Scotia Black Female Educators: Lessons from the Past.” PhD diss., University of Toronto, 1996.
Egbeyemi, Julius O. “Micro-finance and Community Economic Development: A Case Study of African Nova Scotian Business.” MDE (development economics) thesis, Dalhousie University, 2002.
Ekpo, Chioma. “A Longing for Community, Transgressing with Fighting Words of Blackness: Four Black Women’s Narratives in Nova Scotia.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 2000.
Fells, Kenneth Malcolm. “Voices from the Past Reaching for the Future: The Blacks of Southwestern Nova Scotia.” MA thesis, Acadia University, 1989.
Foyn, S.F. “The Underside of Glory: AfriCanadian Enlistment in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1917.” MA thesis, University of Ottawa, 2000.
Frew, Catherine. “The Health of Coloured Families in Halifax.” MSW thesis, Maritime School of Social Work, 1959 [a study of the health and diet of 134 Negro families on Maynard and Creighton Streets, Halifax].
Gillis, Sheldon. “Putting It on Ice: A Social History of Hockey in the Maritimes, 1880-1914.” MA thesis, Saint Mary’s University, 1996.
Grant, John N. “The Immigration and Settlement of the Black Refugees of the War of 1812 in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.” MA thesis, University of New Brunswick, 1970.
Hamilton, Sylvia D. “African Baptist Women as Activists and Advocates in Adult Education.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 2000.
Hamilton-Hinch, Barbara. “Surviving the Impact of the Experience of Racism on Health and Well-Being: An Exploration of Women of African Ancestry Living in Nova Scotia.” PhD diss., Dalhousie University, 2016.
Harding, Kimberly Louise. “St. Philip’s African Orthodox Church: A Case Study of a Unique Religious Institution.” MA thesis, Acadia University, 1998.
Harens, Christine. “Black Loyalists: Land Petitions and Loyalism.” PhD diss., Dalhousie University, 2016.
Hay, Sheridan J. “Black Protest Tradition in Nova Scotia, 1783-1964.” MA thesis, Saint Mary’s University, 1997.
Hudson, Karen Darcell. “A Question of Environmental Racism in the Preston Area, Nova Scotia.” Master of Environmental Studies thesis, Dalhousie University, 2002.
Jackson, Shawn M. “Colour Coded: The Reification of ‘Race’ through Nova Scotia’s Black Business Initiative.” MA thesis, University of Ottawa, 2015.
Lennox, Brian D. “Nova Scotia Black Boxers: A History of Champions.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 1980.
MacDougall, Bernard. “Urban Relocation of Africville Residents.” MA thesis, Maritime School of Social Work and Saint Mary’s University, 1969.
MacLeod-Leslie, Heather. “Understanding the Use of Space in an Eighteenth-Century Black Loyalist Community: Birchtown, Nova Scotia.” MA thesis, Carleton University, 2002.
Madden, Paula. “Indigenizing Africans – Disappearing Indians: Black/Mi’kmaq Relations in Nova Scotia.” MA thesis, Trent University, 2008.
Mannette, Joy A. “‘Making Something Happen’: Nova Scotia’s Black Renaissance, 1968-1986.” PhD diss., Carleton University, 1988.
-. “Setting the Record Straight: The Experience of Black People in Nova Scotia, 1780-1900.” MA thesis, Carleton University, 1983.
Masten, James. “Outta Sight: The Inconspicuous Nature of African Nova Scotia’s Social Movement History.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 2008.
Matthews, George Henry. “A Study of the Employment of the Coloured Man in Halifax.” MSW thesis, Maritime School of Social Work, 1959 [an analysis of the employment situation of 158 Negro men living on Creighton and Maynard Streets, Halifax].
McFarlane, Malcolm R. “The Political Attitudes of Negroes in Halifax City.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 1969.
McGuire, Michael. “How the East Coast Rocks: A History of Hip Hop in Halifax, 1985-1998.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 2011.
Millman, Peter. “African Nova Scotian Youth Experience on the Island, the Hill, and the Marsh: A Study of Truro, Nova Scotia, in the 1950s and 1960s.” MA thesis, University of Lethbridge, 2019.
Moreau, Bernice Mary. “Black Nova Scotian Women’s Educational Experience, 1900-1945: A Study in Race, Gender, and Class Relations.” PhD diss., University of Toronto, 1996.
Murray, William Breen. “A Projective Approach to Social Description: Analysis of Data from Thirteen Black Nova Scotian Communities.” MA thesis, McGill University, 1972.
Nelson, Jennifer J. “The Operation of Whiteness and Forgetting in Africville: A Geography of Racism.” PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2001.
Ntutela, Lindelwa. “‘Knowing Thyself’: An Afrocentric Feminist Analysis of Bifurcated Consciousness Among Eight Black Women, Nova Scotia, 1930-1994.” PhD diss., York University, 1995.
Oliver, Jules Ramon. “Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People: An Historical Evaluation of the NSAACP and the Role it has Played in the Area of Employment.” MSW thesis, Maritime School of Social Work, Acadia University, 1969.
Osbourne, Robert L.A. “Africville: Place of Memory.” MArch thesis, Dalhousie University, 2005.
Peckham, James P. “Loyal to Liberty: The Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia and their Search for Freedom in the Atlantic World.” MA thesis, Howard University, 1997.
Philis, George Henry. “The Level of Aspiration and Its Relationship to Frustration, Tolerance, and Security in Negro Students.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 1958.
Porter, LeQuita Carol Hopgood. “Empowerment: Equipping in Empowering Leadership Practices for Transformation in the East Preston United Baptist Church of Nova Scotia.” Doctor of Ministry thesis, Acadia University, 2017.
Pratt, Selina Lani. “Black Education in Nova Scotia.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 1972.
Precious, Susan Marion-Jean. “The Women of Africville: Race and Gender in Postwar Halifax.” MA thesis, Queen’s University, 1998.
Richardson, Rene L. “Recognizing Missing Branches on the Tree: A Preliminary Social Analysis of Historically-Oppressed Ethnic Minorities in Nova Scotia through Genealogy.” MA thesis, Acadia University, 2007.
Riou, Christopher. “Africville Betrayed: A Study of the Africville Relocation.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 1997.
Rommel-Rulz, W. Bryan. “Atlantic Revolutions: Slavery and Freedom in Newport, Rhode Island, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the Era of the America Revolution.” PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1999.
Ross, Greggory MacIntosh. “Beyond the Abysmal Brute: A Social History of Boxing in Interwar Nova Scotia.” MA thesis, Saint Mary’s University, 2008.
Ross, Jean Beverly. “The Effects of Racial Attitudes and Prejudices on the Colored People of Halifax.” MSW thesis, Maritime School of Social Work, 1959 [a study of racial attitudes and prejudices which influence the social, economic, and personal life of the Negro residents of Maynard and Creighton Streets, Halifax].
Russell, Christeen Annabel. “Child Welfare Problems in the Coloured Community.” MSW thesis, Maritime School of Social Work, 1961 [a study of selected social problems in 134 Negro families living on Maynard and Creighton Streets, Halifax].
Russell, Patrick Kevin. “Complicating Africville: An Oral History of Gender, Race, and Power Relations in Africville.” MA thesis, Saint Mary’s University, 2013.
Shadd, Adrienne L. “The Regional Dynamics of Racial Inequality: A Comparative Study of Blacks in Ontario and Nova Scotia.” MA thesis, McGill University, 1983.
Sheridan, Marion. “Housing as a Factor in the Life of the Colored Family.” MSW thesis, Maritime School of Social Work, 1959 [a study of the housing conditions of 134 Negro families living on Creighton and Maynard Streets, Halifax].
Slaunwhite, Stefanie R. “The Intricacies of Integration: The Case of Graham Creighton High School.” MA thesis, Saint Mary’s University, 2017.
Smith, Jennifer Bradford. “An International History of the Black Panther Party.” PhD diss., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1997.
Sparks, Corrine Etta. “Africville: Reparation in the Paradoxical Legal Construction and Deconstruction of an African Canadian Community.” LLM thesis, Dalhousie University, 2001.
Starkman, Alvin G. “Nova Scotian Black Migrants to Toronto.” MA thesis, York University, 1978.
States, David Wayne. “Presence and Perseverance: Blacks in Hants County, Nova Scotia, 1871-1914.” MA thesis, Saint Mary’s University, 2002.
Taylor, Crystal Sharann. “Silenced Voices: Nova Scotia’s Black Women’s Perspective on Feminism.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 1996.
Thompson, Brenda Juantia. “Single Mother Activists on Welfare: An Examination of Social Roots of Collective Action in Nova Scotia.” MA thesis, Acadia University, 1992.
Thomson, Colin A. “The Historical and Social Background to Nova Scotia Negro Education.” MA thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 1968.
-. “W.P. Oliver, Black Educator.” PhD diss., University of Alberta, 1972.
Tyszko, Sister Lydia. “Family Life and Family Stability of Negroes in Halifax.” MSW thesis, Maritime School of Social Work, 1959 [a study of 134 Negro families living on Maynard and Creighton Streets, Halifax].
Vincer, Mary Pamela. “A History of Marginalization – Africville: A Canadian Example of Forced Migration.” MA thesis, Ryerson University, 2008.
Wade, Gwendolyn. “Psychological Needs, Black Consciousness, and Socialization Practices among Black Adolescents in Nova Scotia, Canada, and Michigan, U.S.A.” PhD diss., Michigan State University, 1972.
Walker, James W. St. G. “The Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.” PhD diss., Dalhousie University, 1973.
Whitfield, Harvey Amani. “Black American Refugees in Nova Scotia, 1813-1840.” PhD diss., Dalhousie University, 2003.
Williams, Eugene E. “The Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples: An Historical Review of the Organization and its Role in the Area of Education.” Dip. Social Work, Maritime School of Social Work, Acadia University, 1969.
Yeadon, H. Marjorie. “Stress of Adolescence in a Coloured Community.” MSW thesis, Maritime School of Social Work, 1959 [a study of the influence of racial discrimination and cultural pressures on Negro adolescents living on Maynard and Creighton Streets, Halifax].
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Films and Visuals
Africville: Can’t Stop Now. Directed by Juanita Peters and produced by Marty Williams. Dartmouth, NS: Africville Productions, 2009, 44 min.
Against the Tides: The Jones Family. Directed by Sylvia D. Hamilton. Almeta Speakes Productions, 1994, 58 min.
Black Mother, Black Daughter. Directed by Sylvia Hamilton and Claire Prieto. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 1989, 29 min.
Blacks in Atlantic Canada, Les Noirs dans les provinces maritimes. Produced by Floyd Elliott. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization and National Film Board of Canada, 1988 [thirty slides with teaching guide].
Encounter at Kwacha House – Halifax. Directed by Rex Tasker. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 1967, 17 min.
Journey to Justice. Directed by Roger McTair. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 2000, 47 min.
The Little Black School House. Directed by Sylvia Hamilton. Maroon Films, 2007, 60 min.
Long Road to Justice – The Viola Desmond Story. Directed by Brian Murray. Halifax: Government of Nova Scotia, 2017, 44 min.
Portia White: Think on Me. Directed by Sylvia Hamilton. Maroon Films, 2000, 50 min.
Remember Africville. Directed by Shelagh Mackenzie. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 1991, 35 min.
Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia. Directed by Sylvia Hamilton. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 1992, 29 min.
Selected Primary Documents
Anglo-African Mutual Improvement and Aid Association of Nova Scotia. Constitution and By-Laws of the Anglo-African Mutual Improvement and Aid Association of Nova Scotia. Halifax: Morning Herald, 187[?].
Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia. Traditional Lifetime Stories: A Collection of Black Memories. Dartmouth, NS: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1987.
-. Traditional Lifetime Stories: A Collection of Black Memories. Vol. 2. Dartmouth, NS: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1990.
“The Black Man in Nova Scotia: Teach-In Report.” Antigonish, NS: St. Francis Xavier University, 1969.
Downes, Marguerite A. Military and Music: Personal Reflections. Dartmouth, NS: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1990.
Gibson, Ethel L. My Journey through Eternity: An Autobiography. Dartmouth, NS: Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1988.
Marrant, John, and William Aldridge. A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black: Now Going to Preach the Gospel in Nova Scotia. London: Gilbert and Plummer, 1785; rpt. New York: Panther, 1978.
New Brunswick Association for the Advancement of Coloured People. “Report to the Mayor and City Council of the Corporation of the City of Saint John.” August 1969.
Noonan, Barry Christopher. Blacks in Canada, 1861. Madison, WI: Author, 2000.