BOOKS
EMANCIPATION DAY (August 1st, the abolition of slavery in British colonies)
Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada
by Natasha Henry, Dundurn Press, 2010.
Talking About Freedom: Celebrating Emancipation Day in Canada
by Natasha Henry, Dundurn Press, 2012.
BLACK ENSLAVEMENT IN CANADA
The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
by Afua Cooper, Harper Collins, Toronto, 2006.
Canada's Forgotten Slaves: Two Centuries of Bondage
by Marcel Trudel and edited by George Tombs, Vehicule Press, 2013.
Slavery and Freedom in Niagara
by Michael Power and Nancy Butler, Niagara Historical Society, 1993.
AFRICAN AMERICAN FREEDOM SEEKERS IN CANADA
THE NORTH SIDE OF SLAVERY – THE REFUGEE: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, related by Themselves
With an account of the history and condition of the colored population of upper Canada
by Benjamin Drew, 1856.
I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
by Karolyn Smardz-Frost, Thomas Allen Publishers, 2006.
GENERAL READERS ON AFRICAN CANADIAN HISTORY
Sankofa Black Heritage Collection
Rubicon Publishing, 2014.
Ontario's African-Canadian heritage: collected writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967
edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost, Bryan Walls, Hilary Bates Neary, and Frederick H. Armstrong, Natural Heritage Books, 2009.
Towards Freedom: the African Canadian Experience
by Ken Alexander and Avis Glaze, Umbrella Press, 1996.
The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada
by Daniel G. Hill, Irwin Publishing Inc. 1981.
A History of Blacks in Canada: A Study Guide for Teachers and Students
by James W. St. G. Walker, Minister of State Multiculturalism, 1980.
Racial Discrimination in Canada: The Black Experience
by James W. St. G. Walker, the Canadian Historical Association, 1985.
African Canadians by James W. St. G. Walker
AFRICAN CANADIANS AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN CANADA
My Name's Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Personal Reminiscences of Stanley G. Grizzle
by Stanley Grizzle with John Cooper. Umbrella Press, 1998.
Season of Rage: Hugh Burnett and the Struggle for Civil Rights by John Cooper, Tundra Books, 2005.
Viola Desmond Won’t Be Judged! by Jody Warner, Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2010.
AFRICAN CANADIAN POETRY
The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry, 2013.
ARTICLES & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Lend me Your Ear: the Voice of Early African Canadian Communities in Ontario through Petitions
by Natasha Henry, Masters Research Project, 2016 (essay and curriculum unit)
Freedom Abound: Celebrating Emancipation Day in St. John’s Ward, 1845–1860
by Natasha Henry
Dismantling Anti-Black Racism in Schools Podcast with Natasha Henry & Phiona Lloyd-Henry
BOOKS FOR TEACHERS & HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Early Societies: Africa, China, and Europe
by Natasha Henry, Big Idea Series, Rubicon Publishing/ Pearson Canada, 2013.
Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada
by Natasha Henry. Natural Heritage/ Dundurn Press, 2010.
Talking About Freedom: Celebrating Emancipation Day in Canada
by Natasha Henry. Natural Heritage/ Dundurn Press, 2012.
The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway: African Canadians in Hamilton
by Adrienne Shadd. Natural Heritage/ Dundurn Press, 2010.
Slavery and Freedom in Niagara
by Michael Power and Nancy Butler, Niagara Historical Society, 1993.
The Blacks in Canada: A History
by Robin Winks, McGill University Press, 1997.
The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
by Afua Cooper, Harper Collins, Toronto, 2006.
L’Esclavage au Canada Français
by Marcel Trudel, Presses de l'université Laval, 1960.
African Canadian Contributions to New France and British North America
by Natasha Henry, Fundi Educational Resources, 2003.
Towards Freedom
by Ken Alexander and Avis Glaze, Umbrella Press, 1996.
My Names Not George: The story of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Canada
by Stanley Grizzle, Umbrella Press, 1998.
Trials Triumph: The Story of African Canadians
by Lawrence Hill, Umbrella Press, 1997.
Go Do some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia
by Crawford Killian, Douglas & McIntyre, 1987.
John Ware’s Country
by Grant MacEwan, Western Producer Prairie Books, 1973.
The Black Battalion 1916 – 1920: Canada’s Best Kept Military Secret
by Calvin Ruck, Nimbus Publishing Ltd., 1987.
Blacks in Deep Snow
by Colin Thomson, J.M. Dent & Son, 1979.
Racial Discrimination in Canada: The Black Experience
by James W. St. G. Walker, The Canadian Historical Association, 1985.
A History of Blacks in Canada: A Study Guide for Teachers and Students
by James W. St. G. Walker, Minister of State Multiculturalism, 1980.
Encyclopedia of Canada’s People’s
editor Paul R. Magocsi for Multiculturalism History Society of Ontario by University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Deemed Unsuitable
by R. Bruce Shepard, Umbrella Press, 1997.
Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen
by Gary L. Collison, Harvard University Press, 1998.
Narrative of Thomas Smallwood (A Coloured Man)
by Thomas Smallwood and edited by Richard Almonte, Mercury Press, 2000.
A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint
by Peter Meyler and David Meyler, Natural Heritage Books, 1999.
A Safe Haven: The Story of the Black Settlers of Oxford County
by Joyce Pettigrew, South Norwich Historical Society, 2006.
The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada
by Daniel G. Hill, Irwin Publishing Inc. 1981.
Should America Pay? - The Raging Debate on Reparations
by Raymond A. Winbush, Harper Collins, 2007.
The Debt
by Randall Robinson, Dutton, 2000.
I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
by Karolyn Smardz-Frost, Thomas Allen Publishers, 2006.
The Book of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill, HarperCollins Publisher, 2007.
Beatrice Chancy
by George Elliot Clarke, Raincoast Books, Polestar, 2001.
Angélique
by Lorena Gale, Playwright Canada Press, Toronto, 1999.
NOVELS FOR STUDENTS
At Her Majesty’s Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
by Walter Dean Myers, New York, Scholastic Press, 1999.
Underground to Canada
by Barbara Smucker, Puffin Canada, 2000.
Stones
by William Bell, Doubleday Canada, 2001.
Our Canadian Girls Series:
- Rachel: A Mighty Big Imagining by Klynne Kositsky, Penguin Books, 2001.
- Rachel: The Maybe House by Lynne Kositsky, Penguin Books, 2002.
- Rachel: Certificate of Freedom by Lynne Kositsky, Penguin Books, 2003.
- Rachel: An Elephant Tree Christmas by Lynne Kositsky, Penguin Books, 2004.
Elijah of Buxton
by Christopher Paul Curtis, Scholastic Inc., 2007.
My Name is Henry Bibb: A Story of Slavery and Freedom
by Afua Cooper. Kids Can Press, 2009.
My Name is Phyllis Wheatly: A Story of Slavery and Freedom
by Afua Cooper. Kids Can Press, 2009.
Last Days in Africville
by Dorothy Perkyns. Dundurn Press, 2006.
Follow the Drinking Gourd
by Jeanette Winter, Knopf, 1988.
The Time Travel Adventures of Ara: Harriet Tubman and The Underground Railroad
by Channon Oyeniran, Oyes Education, 2022
HISTORICAL RESOURCES FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS
Birchtown and the Black Loyalists
by Wanda Lauren Taylor, Nimbus Publishing, 2015.
Black Canadians
by Velma Carter, Reidmore Books Inc., 1998.
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter
by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack”, Walker & Co., 1989.
My Names Not George: The story of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Canada
by Stanley Grizzle, Umbrella Press, 1998.
The Keystone Legacy: Recollections of a Black Settler
by Gwen Brooks, Brightest Pebble Publishing Co. Inc., 1997.
Trials and Triumphs
by Lawrence Hill, Umbrella Press, 1993.
Underground Freedom Next Stop Toronto!
by Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, Karolyn Smardz Frost, Natural Heritage Press, 2002.
The Canadians
by Velma Carter, Reidmore Books Inc., 1989.
The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada
by Daniel G. Hill, Irwin Publishing Inc. 1981.
Millennium Minds: 100 Blacks Canadians
by William Patricia Holas, Pan African Publications, 2000.
Africville: The Life and Death of a Canadian Black Community
by Donald H. Clairmount and Dennis William Magill, 1999.
Black Islanders: Prince Edward Island’s Historical Black Community
by Jim Hornby, Institute of Island Studies, 1991.
I Came as a Stranger
by Bryan Prince, Tundra Books, 2004.
A Shadow on the Household: One Enslaved Family’s Incredible Struggle for Freedom
by Bryan Prince, McClelland & Stewart, 2009.
To Stand and Fight Together: Richard Pierpoint and the Coloured Corps of Upper Canada
by Steve Pitt, Dundurn, 2008.
Magnificent Mali: A Medieval African Society
by Natasha Henry. Fundi Educational Resources, 2006.
Sundiata: Lion King of Mali
by David Wisniewski, Clarion Books, 1992.
Coalition of Lions
by Elizabeth Wein, Firebird, 2004.
The Queen of Sheba
by Marion Khalidi, 1996.
King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
by Blu Greenberg and Linda Tarry, 1997.
The Wisdom Bird: A Tale of Solomon and Sheba
by Sheldon Oberman, 1996.
Dahomey: the Warrior Kings
by Philip Koslow, Chelsea House Publications, 1996.
JOURNALS
Northern Terminus: The African Canadian Journal
EMANCIPATION DAY (August 1st, the abolition of slavery in British colonies)
Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada
by Natasha Henry, Dundurn Press, 2010.
Talking About Freedom: Celebrating Emancipation Day in Canada
by Natasha Henry, Dundurn Press, 2012.
BLACK ENSLAVEMENT IN CANADA
The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
by Afua Cooper, Harper Collins, Toronto, 2006.
Canada's Forgotten Slaves: Two Centuries of Bondage
by Marcel Trudel and edited by George Tombs, Vehicule Press, 2013.
Slavery and Freedom in Niagara
by Michael Power and Nancy Butler, Niagara Historical Society, 1993.
AFRICAN AMERICAN FREEDOM SEEKERS IN CANADA
THE NORTH SIDE OF SLAVERY – THE REFUGEE: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, related by Themselves
With an account of the history and condition of the colored population of upper Canada
by Benjamin Drew, 1856.
I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
by Karolyn Smardz-Frost, Thomas Allen Publishers, 2006.
GENERAL READERS ON AFRICAN CANADIAN HISTORY
Sankofa Black Heritage Collection
Rubicon Publishing, 2014.
Ontario's African-Canadian heritage: collected writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967
edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost, Bryan Walls, Hilary Bates Neary, and Frederick H. Armstrong, Natural Heritage Books, 2009.
Towards Freedom: the African Canadian Experience
by Ken Alexander and Avis Glaze, Umbrella Press, 1996.
The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada
by Daniel G. Hill, Irwin Publishing Inc. 1981.
A History of Blacks in Canada: A Study Guide for Teachers and Students
by James W. St. G. Walker, Minister of State Multiculturalism, 1980.
Racial Discrimination in Canada: The Black Experience
by James W. St. G. Walker, the Canadian Historical Association, 1985.
African Canadians by James W. St. G. Walker
AFRICAN CANADIANS AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN CANADA
My Name's Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Personal Reminiscences of Stanley G. Grizzle
by Stanley Grizzle with John Cooper. Umbrella Press, 1998.
Season of Rage: Hugh Burnett and the Struggle for Civil Rights by John Cooper, Tundra Books, 2005.
Viola Desmond Won’t Be Judged! by Jody Warner, Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2010.
AFRICAN CANADIAN POETRY
The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry, 2013.
ARTICLES & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Lend me Your Ear: the Voice of Early African Canadian Communities in Ontario through Petitions
by Natasha Henry, Masters Research Project, 2016 (essay and curriculum unit)
Freedom Abound: Celebrating Emancipation Day in St. John’s Ward, 1845–1860
by Natasha Henry
Dismantling Anti-Black Racism in Schools Podcast with Natasha Henry & Phiona Lloyd-Henry
BOOKS FOR TEACHERS & HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Early Societies: Africa, China, and Europe
by Natasha Henry, Big Idea Series, Rubicon Publishing/ Pearson Canada, 2013.
Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada
by Natasha Henry. Natural Heritage/ Dundurn Press, 2010.
Talking About Freedom: Celebrating Emancipation Day in Canada
by Natasha Henry. Natural Heritage/ Dundurn Press, 2012.
The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway: African Canadians in Hamilton
by Adrienne Shadd. Natural Heritage/ Dundurn Press, 2010.
Slavery and Freedom in Niagara
by Michael Power and Nancy Butler, Niagara Historical Society, 1993.
The Blacks in Canada: A History
by Robin Winks, McGill University Press, 1997.
The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
by Afua Cooper, Harper Collins, Toronto, 2006.
L’Esclavage au Canada Français
by Marcel Trudel, Presses de l'université Laval, 1960.
African Canadian Contributions to New France and British North America
by Natasha Henry, Fundi Educational Resources, 2003.
Towards Freedom
by Ken Alexander and Avis Glaze, Umbrella Press, 1996.
My Names Not George: The story of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Canada
by Stanley Grizzle, Umbrella Press, 1998.
Trials Triumph: The Story of African Canadians
by Lawrence Hill, Umbrella Press, 1997.
Go Do some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia
by Crawford Killian, Douglas & McIntyre, 1987.
John Ware’s Country
by Grant MacEwan, Western Producer Prairie Books, 1973.
The Black Battalion 1916 – 1920: Canada’s Best Kept Military Secret
by Calvin Ruck, Nimbus Publishing Ltd., 1987.
Blacks in Deep Snow
by Colin Thomson, J.M. Dent & Son, 1979.
Racial Discrimination in Canada: The Black Experience
by James W. St. G. Walker, The Canadian Historical Association, 1985.
A History of Blacks in Canada: A Study Guide for Teachers and Students
by James W. St. G. Walker, Minister of State Multiculturalism, 1980.
Encyclopedia of Canada’s People’s
editor Paul R. Magocsi for Multiculturalism History Society of Ontario by University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Deemed Unsuitable
by R. Bruce Shepard, Umbrella Press, 1997.
Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen
by Gary L. Collison, Harvard University Press, 1998.
Narrative of Thomas Smallwood (A Coloured Man)
by Thomas Smallwood and edited by Richard Almonte, Mercury Press, 2000.
A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint
by Peter Meyler and David Meyler, Natural Heritage Books, 1999.
A Safe Haven: The Story of the Black Settlers of Oxford County
by Joyce Pettigrew, South Norwich Historical Society, 2006.
The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada
by Daniel G. Hill, Irwin Publishing Inc. 1981.
Should America Pay? - The Raging Debate on Reparations
by Raymond A. Winbush, Harper Collins, 2007.
The Debt
by Randall Robinson, Dutton, 2000.
I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
by Karolyn Smardz-Frost, Thomas Allen Publishers, 2006.
The Book of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill, HarperCollins Publisher, 2007.
Beatrice Chancy
by George Elliot Clarke, Raincoast Books, Polestar, 2001.
Angélique
by Lorena Gale, Playwright Canada Press, Toronto, 1999.
NOVELS FOR STUDENTS
At Her Majesty’s Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
by Walter Dean Myers, New York, Scholastic Press, 1999.
Underground to Canada
by Barbara Smucker, Puffin Canada, 2000.
Stones
by William Bell, Doubleday Canada, 2001.
Our Canadian Girls Series:
- Rachel: A Mighty Big Imagining by Klynne Kositsky, Penguin Books, 2001.
- Rachel: The Maybe House by Lynne Kositsky, Penguin Books, 2002.
- Rachel: Certificate of Freedom by Lynne Kositsky, Penguin Books, 2003.
- Rachel: An Elephant Tree Christmas by Lynne Kositsky, Penguin Books, 2004.
Elijah of Buxton
by Christopher Paul Curtis, Scholastic Inc., 2007.
My Name is Henry Bibb: A Story of Slavery and Freedom
by Afua Cooper. Kids Can Press, 2009.
My Name is Phyllis Wheatly: A Story of Slavery and Freedom
by Afua Cooper. Kids Can Press, 2009.
Last Days in Africville
by Dorothy Perkyns. Dundurn Press, 2006.
Follow the Drinking Gourd
by Jeanette Winter, Knopf, 1988.
The Time Travel Adventures of Ara: Harriet Tubman and The Underground Railroad
by Channon Oyeniran, Oyes Education, 2022
HISTORICAL RESOURCES FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS
Birchtown and the Black Loyalists
by Wanda Lauren Taylor, Nimbus Publishing, 2015.
Black Canadians
by Velma Carter, Reidmore Books Inc., 1998.
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter
by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack”, Walker & Co., 1989.
My Names Not George: The story of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Canada
by Stanley Grizzle, Umbrella Press, 1998.
The Keystone Legacy: Recollections of a Black Settler
by Gwen Brooks, Brightest Pebble Publishing Co. Inc., 1997.
Trials and Triumphs
by Lawrence Hill, Umbrella Press, 1993.
Underground Freedom Next Stop Toronto!
by Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, Karolyn Smardz Frost, Natural Heritage Press, 2002.
The Canadians
by Velma Carter, Reidmore Books Inc., 1989.
The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada
by Daniel G. Hill, Irwin Publishing Inc. 1981.
Millennium Minds: 100 Blacks Canadians
by William Patricia Holas, Pan African Publications, 2000.
Africville: The Life and Death of a Canadian Black Community
by Donald H. Clairmount and Dennis William Magill, 1999.
Black Islanders: Prince Edward Island’s Historical Black Community
by Jim Hornby, Institute of Island Studies, 1991.
I Came as a Stranger
by Bryan Prince, Tundra Books, 2004.
A Shadow on the Household: One Enslaved Family’s Incredible Struggle for Freedom
by Bryan Prince, McClelland & Stewart, 2009.
To Stand and Fight Together: Richard Pierpoint and the Coloured Corps of Upper Canada
by Steve Pitt, Dundurn, 2008.
Magnificent Mali: A Medieval African Society
by Natasha Henry. Fundi Educational Resources, 2006.
Sundiata: Lion King of Mali
by David Wisniewski, Clarion Books, 1992.
Coalition of Lions
by Elizabeth Wein, Firebird, 2004.
The Queen of Sheba
by Marion Khalidi, 1996.
King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
by Blu Greenberg and Linda Tarry, 1997.
The Wisdom Bird: A Tale of Solomon and Sheba
by Sheldon Oberman, 1996.
Dahomey: the Warrior Kings
by Philip Koslow, Chelsea House Publications, 1996.
JOURNALS
Northern Terminus: The African Canadian Journal
