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Anti-slavery Issues in Canada, 1830-1870
A Selective Bibliography


The following is a list of materials held by Library and Archives Canada on the anti-slavery movement in Canada between approximately 1830 and 1870. As the historiography relating to slavery is vast, including thousands of monographs and journal articles dealing with aspects of the issue, the present bibliography is restricted to primary material dating from the period when slavery was being debated and criticized in public discourse. This is not a complete bibliography of the issue or the holdings of this institution but rather reflects some of the many places where such material may be found. Represented are newspaper and periodical articles, travel literature and journals to places where slavery was an ongoing practice, treatises, sermons, reports of anti-slavery institutions, published slavery narratives, other published documents and archival materials. As the anti-slavery movement was international, many of the sources listed here were not created by Canadians, but are evidence of the kinds of ideas with which Canadians of the period engaged. As these were documents created in the 1830s to 1870s, the language of their titles and content reflect their historical context.

General Collection

Alexander, James Edward, Sir.  -  Transatlantic sketches : comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies : with notes on Negro slavery and Canadian emigration.  -  London : R. Bentley, 1833.  -  2 vols.

Allen, Grant.  -  Biographies of working men [microform].  -  London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884.  -  3 microfiches.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 58890

Apetheker, Herbert.  - "One continual cry" : David Walker’s appeal to the coloured citizens of the world 1829-1830 : its setting & its meaning; by Herbert Aptheker; together with the full text of the third, and last, edition of the Appeal.  -  New York : Published for A.I.M.S. by Humanities Press, c1965.  -  150 p.

Balme, Joshua Rhodes.  -  American states, churches, and slavery.  -  Edinburgh : Published for the author by W. P. Nimmo, 1892.  -  546 p.

Bartlett, John Russell (editor).  -  The literature of the rebellion : a catalogue of books and pamphlets relating to the civil war in the United States, and on subjects growing out of the event, together with works on American slavery, and essays from reviews and magazines on the same subjects.  -  Boston : Draper and Halliday.  -  1866.  -  477 p.

Bayley, F. W. N.  -  Four years’ residence in the West Indies, during the years 1826, 7, 8, and 9; by the son of a military officer.  -  3rd edition.  -  London : W. Kidd, 1833.  -  732 p.

Birney, James Gillespie.  -  Letters, 1831-1857.  -  Ed. Dwight L. Drumond.  -  Gloucester, Mass : P. Smith, 1966.  -  1189 p.

Bishop, Isabella L.  -  The Englishwoman in America [microform].  -  London : J. Murray, 1856.  -  6 microfiches.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 28461

A Brief reply to an important question [microform] : being a letter to Professor Goldwin Smith from an implicit believer in Holy Scripture.  -  London : Saunders, Otley, 1863.  -  1 microfiche.  --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 47996

Buckingham, James Silk.  -  The slave states of America.  -  London : Fisher, [1842].  -  2 vols.

Burton, Richard F.  -  A mission to Gelele, king of Dahome ; with notices of the so called "Amazons", the grand customs, the yearly customs, the human sacrifices, the present state of the slave trade, and the negro’s place in nature.  -  London : Tinsley Bros., 1864.  -  2 vols.

Cairnes, John Elliot.  --  The slave power : its character, career & probable designs ; being an attempt to explain the real issue involved in the American contest.  -  London : Parker, Son and Bourn, 1862.  -  304 p.

Canada.  --  Consolidated statutes of Upper Canada.  -  Toronto : Stewart Derbishire and George Desbarats, 1859.  -  1228 p. (Housed in the National Library’s Reference Collection)

Canadian.  -  Remarks on the historical mis-statements and fallacies of Mr. Goldwin Smith, (late Regius professor of modern history at Oxford University) in his lecture "On the foundation of the American colonies," and his letters "On the foundation of the American colonies".  -  Toronto : Printed at the Leader Steam Press Establishment, 1866.  -  16 p.

Canadian Anti-Slavery and Baptist Association.  -  The constitution, by-laws, minutes, circular letter, articles of faith and the covenant of the Canadian Anti-Slavery Baptist Association [microform].  -  [Windsor, Ont : s. n.], 1854.  -  1 microfiche.  --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 89540

Carmichael, Mrs. (A. C.).  -  Domestic manners and social condition of the white, coloured, and Negro population of the West Indies.  -  London : Whittaker, Treacher, 1833.  -  2 vols.

Chambers, William.  -  American slavery and colour.  -  London : W. & R. Chambers, 1857.  -  1 vol.

Chambers, William.  -  Things as they are in America [microform].  -  Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo, 1854.  -  4 microfiches.  --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 64037

Congregational Churches in New York. General Association.  -  Slavery question [microform] : report of the New York General Association, 26th August, 1855.  -  [Toronto? : s.n., 1855?].  -  1 microfiche. --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 57462

Convention of the Coloured Population, Drummondville, Ontario, 1847.  -  Report of the Convention of the Coloured Population, held at Drummondville, Aug., 1847.  -  Toronto : Printed at the Banner Office, 1847.  -  16 p.

Cooper, Thomas.  -  Facts illustrative of the conditions of the Negro slaves in Jamaica : with notes and an appendix.  -  London : [s. n.] : sold by J. Hatchard, 1824.  -  64 p.

Dickens, Charles.  -  American notes for general circulation [microform].  -  London : Chapman and Hall, 1842.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; nos. 34942, 34943, 34944

Douglass, Frederick.  -  My bondage and my freedom…  --  New York : Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855.  -  464 p.

___.  -  Negroes and the national war effort : an address / by Frederick Douglass ; with a foreword by James W. Ford.  -  New York : Workers Library Publishers, 1942.  -  14 p.

___.  -  Oration by Frederick Douglass delivered on the occasion of the unveiling of the Freedman’s monument in memory of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Washington, D. C., April 14, 1876, with an appendix.  -  New York : Pub. For the Frederick Douglass Historical and Cultural League by the Pathway Press, 1940.  -  34 p.

___.  -  The Negro people in a democratic war.  -  New York : Workers Bookshop, [19 -- ].  -  3 p.

Draper, John William.  -  History of the American Civil War.  -  New York : Harper, 1867-70.  -  3 vols.

Drew, Benjamin.  -  The refugee, or, The narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada, related by themselves [microform] : with an account of the history and condition of the colored population of Upper Canada.  -  Boston : J. P. Jewett.  -  1856.  --  5 microfiches.  --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 49469

Elgin Association.  -  Annual Report of the directors of the Elgin Association [microform].  -  Toronto : The Association, 1851-[1859?].  -  9 microfiches.  --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 00255.  -  Issues reproduced: 2nd (1851)- 10th/11th (1859/60).

Ellison, Thomas.  -  Slavery and secession in America, historical and economical.  -  London : S. Low, 1861.  -  371 p.

Featherstonhaugh, G. W.  -  Excursion through the slave states, from Washington on the Potomac to the frontier of Mexico : with sketches of popular manners and geological notices.  -  London : J. Murray, 1844.  -  2 vols.

Gordon, Robert.  -  A sermon preached on the morning of the first of August [microform] : by a black clergyman, the Rev. Robert Gordon, in St. Paul Cathedral, London, Canada West on the occasion of the celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the West Indies emancipation, by the coloured citizens of London, and several other places.  -  [London, Ont? : s.n.], 1859.  -  1 microfiche.  --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 68168

Granier de Cassagnac, Bernard Adolphe.  -  Voyage aux Antilles, françaises, anglaises, danoises, espangnoles ; à Saint-Domingue et aux États-Unis d’Amérique.  -  Paris : Dauvin et Fontaine, 1842-44.  -  2 vols.

Greeley, Horace.  -  The American conflict, a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-’64 : its causes, incidents, and results : intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the war for the Union.  -  Hartford : Case, 1864.  -  2 vols.

Haliburton, Thomas Chandler.  -  Nature and human nature.  -  London : Hurst and Blackett, 1859.  -  344 p.

___.  -  The attaché, or Sam Slick in England.  -  London : R. Bentley, 1843.  -  2 vols.

Hall, Marshall.  -  The two-fold slavery of the United States : with a project of self-emancipation.  -  London : A. Scott, 1854.  -  154 p.

Halliday, Andrew, Sir.  -  The West Indies : the natural and physical history of the Winward and Leeward colonies : with some account of the moral, social and political conditions of their inhabitants, immediately before and after the abolition of Negro slavery.  -  London : J. W. Parker, 1837.  -  408 p.

Haviland, Laura.  --  A woman’s life-work : labors and experiences of Laura S. Haviland [microform].  --  Cincinnati : L. S. Haviland, 1881.  -  6 microfiches.  --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 09809

Helper, Hinton Rowan.  -  Compendium of the impending crisis of the South.  -  New York : A. B. Burdick, 1860.  -  214 p.

Helps, Arthur, Sir.  -  The conquerors of the New world and their bondsmen : being a narrative of the principal events which led to Negro slavery in the West Indies and America.  -  London : W. Pickering, 1848-52.  -  2 vols.

Henning Thomas.  -  Slavery in the Churches, religious societies, &c.; a review [microform].  -  Prefatory remarks by J. J. E. Linton.  -  [Toronto? : s. n.], 1856.  -  1 microfiche.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 91043

Henson, Josiah.  -  Father Henson’s story of his own life.  --  With an introduction by H. B. Stowe.  -  Boston : J. P. Jewett, 1858.  -  212 p.

Henson, Josiah.  -  The young people’s illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom’s" [i.e. J. Henson’s] story of his life from (1789 to 1877) [microform].  --  By John Lobb ; with a preface by the Earl of Shaftesbury ; and an address to the young people of Great Britain by "Uncle Tom".  -  London : Christian Age Office, 1877.  -  2 microfiches.  --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 09807

Hincks, Francis, Sir.  -  The results of Negro emancipation [microform] : a speech delivered at a public meeting, held in London, August 1, 1859, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the abolition of slavery by the Parliament of Great Britain, the Right Hon. Lord Brougham in the chair.  -  [London : L. M. Watts.], 1859.  -  1 microfiche.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 52969

Hole, J. E.  -  "North and South" [microform] : letters to "the Guardian" a Church of England paper published in London by the Revs. J.E. Hole, and J.M Neale on the subject of "North and South, " with replies by Rev.  -  -  -   -  -  - of the diocese of  -  -  -  C. W., recently a presbyter of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America.  -  [S. l. : s. n.], 1863.  -  1 microfiche.  --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 91080

Holt, Miss.  -  An autobiographical sketch of a teacher’s life : including a residence in the northern and southern states, California, Cuba and Peru.  -  Quebec : Carrel, 1875.  -  104 p.

Jay, William.  -  A view of the action of the federal government : in behalf of slavery.  -  New York : J. S. Taylor, 1839.  -  217 p.

Jones, Thomas H.  -  The experience of Thomas Jones [microform] : who was a slave for forty-three years; written by a friend, as given to him by Brother Jones.  -  [Saint John, N. B.? : s. n.], 1853.  -  1 microfiche.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 35352

King, William.  -  Fugitive slaves in Canada [microform] : Elgin settlement.  -  [S. l. : s. n., 1860?].  -  1 microfiche.  --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 45202

Mackenzie, William Lyon.  -  Sketches of Canada and the United States [microform].  -  London : E. Wilson, 1833.  -  6 microfiches.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 46135

MacQueen, James.  -  The West India colonies : the calumnies and misrepresentations circulated against them by the Edinburgh review, Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Cropper &c.; &c.;.  -  London : Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1824.  -  427 p.

Madden, Richard Robert.  -  A twelvemonth’s residence in the West Indies during the translation from slavery to apprenticeship : with incidental notices of the state of society, prospects and natural resources of Jamaica and other islands.  -  London : J. Cochrane, 1835.  -  2 vols.

___.  -  The memoirs (chiefly autobiographical) from 1798 to 1886 of Richard Robert Madden…  -  Edited by his son Thomas More Madden.  -  London : Ward & Downey, 1891.  -  328 p.

Manzano, Juan Francisco.  -  The life and poems of a Cuban slave : Juan Francisco Manzano.  -  Edited and translated by R. R. Madden.  --  Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1981.  -  273 p.  -  Originally published 1840

Marly : or, The life of a planter in Jamaica : comprehending characteristic sketches of the present state of society and manners in the British West Indies and an impartial review of the landing questions relative to colonial policy.  -  2nd edition.  -  Glasgow : R. Griffin, 1828.  -  363 p.

Massie, J.W.  -  America : the origin of her present conflict : her prospects for the slave, and her claim for anti-slavery sympathy; illustrated by incidents of travel, during a tour in the summer of 1863, throughout the United States, from the eastern boundaries of Maine to the Mississippi.  -  London : Snow, 1864.  -  472 p.

McHenry, George.  -  The cotton trade : its bearing upon the prosperity of Great Britain and commerce of the American republics, considered in connection with the system of Negro slavery in the Confederate states.  -  London : Saunders, Otley, 1863.  -  292 p.

Member of the late Parliament.  -  Remarks on an address to the members of the new Parliament, on the proceedings of the Colonial Department, with respect to the West India question [microform].  -  London : J. Murray, 1826.  -  1 microfiche.  --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 21203

Mercer, G. Adam.  -  "Alexander Milton Ross, M. D.".  -  In Prominent men of Canada : a collection of persons distinguished in professional and political life, and in commerce and industry of Canada.  -  Toronto : Canadian Biographical Pub. Co., 1892.  -  P. 458-462

Murat, Achille, Prince.  --  The United States of North America with a note on Negro slavery by Junius Areivivus.  -  London : [s.n.], 1833.

Murray, Amelia.  -  Letters from the United States and Canada.  -  New York : G. P. Putnam, 1856.  -  412 p.

Murray, Henry A.  -  Lands of the slave and the free, or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada.  -  London : J. W. Parker, 1855.  -  2 vols.

Onesimus, Secondus.  -  The true interpretation of the American Civil War, and of England’s cotton difficulty : or, Slavery from a different point of view : shewing the relative responsibilities of America and Great Britain.  -  London : Trubner, 1863.  -  47 p.

Protestant.  -  Rhymes for the times [microform] : original poems on popery, slavery, and intemperance.  -  Montreal : [s. n.], 1857.  -  2 microfiches.  --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 40112

Robinson, Stuart.  -  Slavery as recognized in the Mosaic civil law, recognized also, and allowed in the Abrahamic, Mosaic, and Christian Church [microform] : being one of a series of Sabbath evening discourses on the laws of Moses; by Stuart Robinson; with notes from orthodox British, and continental biblical critics and commentators.  -  Toronto : Rollo & Adam, 1865.  -  2 microfiches.  --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 91118

Rodway, James. The West Indies and the Spanish Main.  -  London : T. F. Unwin, 1846.  -  371 p.

Rolph, Thomas.  -  Comparative advantages between the United States and Canada, for British settlers : considered in a letter, addressed to Captain Allardyce Barclay or Uru [microform].  -  London : Smith, Elder, 1842.  -  1 microfiche.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 21855

___.  -  Emigration and colonization : embodying the results of a mission to Great Britain and Ireland, during the years 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842 : including a correspondence with many distinguished noblemen and gentlemen, several of the Governors of Canada, etc., descriptive accounts of various parts of the British American provinces, with observations, statistical, political, etc./ [microform].  -  London : J. Mortimer, 1844.  -  5 microfiches.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 56292

Shadd, Mary A.  -  A plea for emigration, or, Notes of Canada West [microform] : in its moral, social, and political aspects; with suggestions respecting Mexico, West Indies, and Vancouver’s Island, for the information of coloured emigrants. Detroit : G. W. Pattison, 1852.  -  1 microfiche.  --  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 47542

Sherman, Henry.  -  Slavery in the United States of America : its national recognition and relations, from the establishment of the Confederacy, to the present time : a word to the North and the South. 2nd edition.  -  Hartford, Connecticut : Hulbert & Pond, 1860.  -  187 p.

Smallwood, Thomas.  -  A narrative of Thomas Smallwood (coloured man) [microform] : giving an account of his birth, the period he was held in slavery, his release and removal to Canada, etc. : together with an account of the underground railroad.  -  Toronto : J. Stephens, 1851.  -  1 microfiche.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 64728

Smith, Goldwin.  -  Does the Bible sanction American slavery?  -  Oxford ; London : J. Henry and J. Parker, 1863.  -  128 p.

Steward, Austin.  -  Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman [microform] : embracing a correspondence of several years, while president of Wilberforce Colony, Canada West.  -  Rochester, N. Y, : W. Alling, 1857.  -  4 microfiches.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 43041

Stirling, James.  -  Letters from the slave states.  -  London : J. W. Parker and Son, 1857.  -  374 p.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.  -  Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe.  --  Compiled from her letters and journals by her son, Charles Edward Stowe.  -  Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1889.  -  530 p.

___.  -  Uncle Tom’s cabin : a tale of life among the lowly.  -  Unabridged edition.  -  London : F. Warne, [185?].  -  187 p.

Sturge, Joseph.  -  A visit to the United States in 1841.  -  London : Hamilton, Adams, 1842.  -  192 p.

Sumner, Charles.  -  The anti-slavery enterprise, its necessity, practicality and dignity, with glimpses of the special duties of the North [microform] : lecture of the Honourable Charles Sumner of Boston, United States, literally reported in the New York Tribune, of the 18th of May, 1855.  -  [London? : s.n.], 1855.  -  1 microfiche.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 53283

Siebert, Wilbur H.  -  The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom.  -  2nd edition.  -  New York : Macmillan Co., 1899.  -  478 p.

Thompson, John.  -  The life of John Thompson, a fugitive slave : containing his history of 25 years in bondage, and his providential escape.  -  Worcester, Mass. : J. Thompson, 1856.  -  143 p.

Thoreau, Henry David.  -  Yankee in Canada [microform] : with anti-slavery and reform papers.  -  Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1866.  -  4 microfiches.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 41922

Turnbull, David.  -  Travels in the West : Cuba : with notices of Porto Rico, and the slave trade.  -  London : Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1840.  -  574 p.

Ward, Samuel Ringgold.  -  Autobiography of a fugitive Negro : his antislavery labors in the United States, Canada and England.  -  Chicago : Johnson Pub. Co, 1970.  -  277 p.

Warner, Ashton.  -  Negro slavery described by a Negro : being the narrative of Ashton Warner, a native of St. Vincent’s, with an appendix containing the testimony of three clergymen of the Church of England, and a Wesleyan missionary returned from the colonies, on the system of slavery as it now exists by S. Strickland.  -  London : S. Maunder, 1831.  -  43 p.

Wilberforce, William.  -  An appeal to the religion, justice and humanity of the inhabitants of the British Empire, in behalf of the Negro slaves in the West Indies [microform].  -  London : Printed by Ellerton and Henderson for J. Hatchard, 1823.  -  1 microfiche.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 42789

Willard, Frances E.  -  Glimpses of fifty years [microform] : the autobiography of an American woman.  -  Toronto : Woman’s Temperance Pub. Association : Rose, 1889.  -  9 microfiches.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 11534

Williams, Joseph J. E.  -  The principles of American slavery [microform] : an interesting and authentic pamphlet giving a full and satisfactory description of the principles of the slave code of the South, with the morals and improvements of the colored people of Canada, of the Elgin Association.  -  [Hamilton, Ont. : s. n.], 1858.  -  1 microfiche.  -  CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series ; no. 63245

Special Collections

The materials listed below are only available in the Special Collections Division of Library and Archives Canada. Call numbers are necessary to access this material and have been listed at the end of individual references.

Allardice, Robert Barclay.  -  Agricultural Tour in the United States and Upper Canada : with miscellaneous notices.  -  Edinburgh : W. Blackwood, 1842.  -  181 p.  -  E165 A41

Baird, Robert.  -  Impressions and experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849.  -  Edinburgh : W. Blackwood, 1850.  -  2 vols. in 1.  --  F1611 B16 1850a

Brown, George.  -  The American war and slavery : speech of the Hon. George Brown, at the anniversary meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada, held at Toronto, on Wednesday February 3, 1863.  -  Manchester : Union and Emancipation Society, 1863.  -  16 p.  -  E453 B76 1863

Considerations addressed to professors of Christianity of every denomination, on the impropriety of consuming West-India sugar and rum : as produced by the oppressive labour of slaves.  -  2nd edition corr.  -  London : Printed by Ritchie & Sammells, 1792.  -  8 p.  -  HT1093 C65

Drinkwater, C. H.  -  A short account of the manner in which Emancipation Day, first of August, 1864, was spent in the City of Hamilton before the members of the Brotherly Union Society, in the Church of St. Thomas, Hamilton.  -  Hamilton, [Ont.] : A. Lawson & Co., [1864?].  -  12 p.  -  HT1033 D75 1864

Episcopal Methodist Church. General Conference (1860 : Buffalo, N. Y. ). Committee on Slavery.  -  The majority and minority of reports of the Committee on Slavery at the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held in Buffalo, 1860.  -  Buffalo : Sanford, Warren & Harroun, 1860.  -  20 p.  -  E449 M58 1860

General Anti-slavery Convention. (1st : 1840 : London, England)  -  Minutes of the proceedings of the General Anti-slavery Convention : called by the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society of Canada held in London on the 12th of June, 1840, and continued by adjournments to the 23rd of the same month.  -  London : Johnson & Barrett, 1840.  -  32p.  -  HT855 G45 1840

General Anti-slavery Convention. (2nd : 1843 : London, England)  -  Proceedings of the General Anti-slavery Convention : called by the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, and held in London, from Tuesday, June 13th, to Tuesday, June 20th, 1843; by J. F. Johnson.  -  London : J. Snow, 1843.  -  360p.  -  HT855 G45 1843

Haerne, Canon de.  -  The American question.  -  Translated by Thomas Ray.  -  London : W. Ridgway, 1863.  -  114 p.  -  E469.8 M24 1863

Logan, James.  -  Notes of a journey through Canada, the United States of America and the West Indies.  -  Edinburgh : Fraser, 1838.  -  259 p.  -  FC72 P37 1838

Mathews, Edward.  -  The British-American Institute at Dawn, Canada West.  -  [Bristol?, England : s.n., 1852].  -  4 p.  -  HT853B7 fol.

On the American scheme of establishing colonies of free Negro emigrants on the coast of Africa, as exemplified in Liberia.  -  [Edinburgh : s.n., 1833?].  -  16 p.  -  E448 05 1833

Prince, Mary.  -  The history of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, related by herself with a supplement by the editor, to which is added the Narrative of Asa-Asa, a captured African.  -  2nd edition  -  London : F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1831.  -  43 p.  -  HT869 P6A3 1831b

A Reply to Captain Marryat’s illiberal and incorrect statements relative to the coloured West Indians, as published in his work entitled A diary in America.  -  London : E. Justins & Sons, printers, 1840.  -  36 p.  -  E165 M3732

Shaw, John.  -  A ramble through the United States, Canada, and the West Indies.  -  London : Hope, 1856.  -  370 p.  -  E166 S53

Stephen, James.  -  Emancipation in disguise, or, the true crisis of the colonies : to which are added, considerations upon measures proposed for their temporary relief and observations upon colonial monopoly, shewing, the different effects of its enforcement and relaxation, exposing the advantages derived by America from Louisiana, and lastly, suggestions for a permanent plan to supply our colonies with provisions and our navy with certain naval stores independent of foreign supplies.  -  London : Printed for J. Ridgeway and J. M. Richardson, 1807.  -  220 p.  -  JL 243 1774 K7

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.  -  A key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin : presenting the original facts upon which the story is founded, together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work.  -  Boston : J. P. Jewett, 1853.  -  262 p.  -  PS2954 U5 1853a

___.  -  La Case du père Tom, ou, Vie des nègres aux États-Unis / Henriette [sic] Beecher Stowe.  -  Traduction de La Bedollière.  -  [Montréal : s. n.], 1853 (Montréal : Presses a vapeur de J. Lovell).  -  1 vol.  -  PS2954 U5 1853

Willer, T. I.  -  La question de l’esclavage aux États-Unis, par un ancien fonctionnaire des Indes néerlandaises.  -  La Haye : M. Nijhoff, 1862.  -  61 p.  -  E469. 8 M24 1863

Wilson, Thomas, B. A.  -  Transatlantic sketches, or Travelling reminiscences of the West Indies and United States.  -  Montreal : J. Lovell, 1860.  -  179 p.  -  F1611 W75

Newspaper and Periodical Literature

The following is a list of newspapers and newspaper articles held by Library and Archives Canada, which contain material on the anti-slavery movement. All are available on microfilm.

The British Colonist:

Carruthers, John.  -  "Education of the colored population".  -  The British Colonist.  -  Vol. 2, no. 18 (June 5 1839).  -  P. [2-3]

Jackson, Robert and Ebenezer Talbot.  -  "Great meeting of coloured people at Ancaster".  -  The British Colonist.  -  Vol. 3, no. 13 (April 8 1840).  -  P. [2]

The Chatham Chronicle:

Cannon.  -  "To the colored men of [Ke] and Essex".  -  The Chatham Chronicle.  -  Vol. 1, no. 8 (September 18 1849).  -  P. [2]

"The Elgin Association".  -  The Chatham Chronicle.  -  Vol. 1, no. 12 (October 16 1849).  -  P. [3]

Larwill, Edwin.  -  "To the Right Hon. The Earl of Elgin,  -  To the Editor of the Church".  -  The Chatham Chronicle.  -  Vol. 1, no. 24 (February 5 1850).  -  P. [2-3]

"Miscellaneous -- New mode of catching slaves".  -  The Chatham Chronicle.  -  Vol. , no. (April 30 1850).  -  P. 2

Larwill, Edwin.  -  "Elgin Association".  -  The Chatham Chronicle.  -  Vol. 1 , no. 35 (April 30 1850).  -  P. 2-3

The Ecclesiastical and Missionary Record for the Presbyterian Church of Canada:

"Prospectus of a scheme for the improvement of the colored people of Canada".  -  The Ecclesiastical and Missionary Record for the Presbyterian Church of Canada.  -  Vol. 5, no. 3 (January 1849).  -  P. 39- 40

Burns, Dr. and Rev. Wm. King.  -  "Visit to the United States, on behalf of the Raleigh settlement of coloured persons".  -  The Ecclesiastical and Missionary Record for the Presbyterian Church of Canada.  -  Vol. 7, no. 3 (January 1851).  -  P. 33-35

King, William.  -  "To the Editor of the Record".  -  The Ecclesiastical and Missionary Record for the Presbyterian Church of Canada.  -  Vol. 8, no. 5 (March 1852).  -  P. 68

"Report on the Buxton Mission".  -  The Ecclesiastical and Missionary Record for the Presbyterian Church of Canada.  -  Vol. 9, no. 9 (July 1853).  -  P. 132

"Report on the Buxton Mission".  -  The Ecclesiastical and Missionary Record for the Presbyterian Church of Canada.  -  Vol. 10, no. 10 (August 1854).  -  P. 146

The Globe:

"Passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 7, no. 113 (September 19 1850).  -  P. 450

"The anti-slavery movement".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 8, no. 28 (March 6 1851).  -  P. 110

"Great anti-slavery meeting".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 8, no. 40 (April 3 1851).  -  P. 158-159

"Great anti-slavery meeting".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 8, no. 41 (April 5 1851).  -  P. 162-163

"Anti-slavery meetings".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 8, no. 43 (April 10 1851).  -  P. 170-171

"Letters on emigration to Jamaica".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 8, no. 106 (September 4 1851).  -  P. 423

"Letters on Jamaica".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 8, no. 108 (September 9 1851).  -  P. 430

"Letters on Jamaica".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 8, no. 110 (September 13 1851).

"Letters on Jamaica".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 8, no. 111 (September 16 1851).  -  P. 443

"Emigration to the West Indies from Canada and the United States".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 8, no. 112 (September 18 1851).

"Emigration to the West Indies".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 8, no. 113 (September 20 1851).  -  P. 450

"The fugitive from slavery".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 9, no. 70 (June 10 1852).  -  P. 278

"The fugitive slave case". -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 17, no. 269 (December 5 1860).  -  P. 2

"The extradition case! Great meeting in the Saint Lawrence Hall : the rights of the slave".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 17, no. 282 (December 20 1860).  -  P. 2

"The extradition case : judgment of the court : a majority against the prisoner".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 17, no. 280 (December 17 1860).  -  P. 2

Burr, Rowland.  --  "Shall Anderson the fugitive slave be surrendered".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 17 , no. 281 (December 18 1860).  -  P. 2

Lees, J. C., Robert Sandilands and F. F. Graham.  -  " ‘Common sense’ ".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 17, no. 281 (December 19 1860).  -  P. 2

Smith, Gerritt.  -  "The extradition case".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 18, no. 13 (January 16 1861).  -  P. 2

"The fugitive".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 18, no. 14 (January 17 1861).  -  P. 2

"English opinion of the extradition case".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 18, no. 18 (January 22 1861).  -  P. 2-3

"Shall John Anderson be burnt!".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 18, no. 18 (January 22 1861).  -  P. 3

"English opinion of the extradition case".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 18, no. 23 (January 28 1861).  -  P. 2

"The cotton supply".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 18, no. 25 (January 30 1861).  -  P. 2

"Negro plots".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 18, no. 29 (February 4 1861).  -  P. 3

"Communications : Anderson’s case  -  sympathy wanted".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 18, no. 32 (February 7 1861).  -  P. [3]

"A parallel : no case for quibbles".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 18, no. 45 (February 12 1861).  -  P. [2]

"Anti-slavery Society annual meeting".  -  The Globe.  -  Vol. 20, no. 34 (February 5 1863).  -  P. [1-2]

The Toronto Examiner:

"The Anti-slavery Society".  -  Toronto Examiner.  -  Vol. 14, no. 41 (March 31 1852).  -  P. [2]

"The Anti-slavery Society".  -  Toronto Examiner.  -  Vol. 14, no. 45 (April 28 1852).  -  P. [2]

Newspapers dealing exclusively with the anti-slavery cause include:

The Provincial freeman [microform].  -  [Windsor, Ont.] : [s.n.], 1854-1857.  -  I microfilm reel.  -  Vol. 1, no. 1 (March 24, 1854)- vol. 3, no. 51 (Sept. 6, 1857).  -  Philadelphia, P. A. : Microsurance, [198-].  -  Title varies: 1855-1857, The Provincial freeman and weekly advertiser.

Voice of the fugitive [microform].  -  Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1, 1851)-vol. 2, no. 26 (Dec. 16, 1852).  -  Sandwich : Windsor, [Ont.] : [s.n.], 1851-1852.  -  Ottawa : Canadian Library Association, 1947.  -  Issue for Mar. 25, 1852 is lacking .

Photographs and Artwork

Heriot, George.  -  Canadian Minuets.  -  1807.  -  17.0 x 28.5  -  Aquatint hand-coloured .  - 

Published in Illustrations from Travels Through the Canada’s, 1807  -  1970-188-1474 (A095-02)

Forster, John Wycliffe Lowes.  -  John Graves Simcoe.  -  78.6 x 63.5 cm.  -  Oil on canvas.  -  1991-30-3

Estcourt, Caroline Bucknall.  -  The good "woman of colours" who lived near us in Lundy’s Lane and took in a sick black man to nurse when he had been turned out because he could not pay his lodging.  -  1938/1939.  -  27.0 x 21.9.  -  Watercolour and pencil on wove paper.  -  1950-29-64

Cary, Amelia (1803-1858) (attributed to) Falkland, Lady Amelia.  -  A Negro Male (Nova Scotia).  -  1845.  -  31.6 x 25.1.  -  pencil, red wash, and white gouache on wove paper.  -  1990-207-88 A076-01.  -  Part of Lady Falkland Album.

Acland, Sir Henry Wentworth.  -  Negro Man and Child on the Way Side, Southwestern Ontario (?) -  September 7-20, 1860.  -  18.7 x 13.7.  -  Pen and brown ink over pencil with watercolour and opaque white on blue wove paper.  -  1986-7-187

Martin, Henry Byam.  -  The land of the free and the home of the braves. (Slave Market) (Charleston, S. Carolina).  -  March 4, 1833.  -  11.1 x 18.3.  -  Pen and brown ink with watercolour over pencil on paper.  -  1981-42-42

Dr. William King, Daniel G. Hill Photograph Collection.  -  1988-208 03718

Osborne Perry Anderson, Daniel G. Hill Photograph Collection.  -  1988-208 03718

A. W. Shadd, Daniel G. Hill Photograph Collection.  -  1988-208 03718, envelopes 11 and 26 (slide)

Anderson Ruffin Abbott, Daniel G. Hill Photograph Collection.  -  1988-208 03718, envelope 6.

Manuscript fonds

Phil H. Alexander fonds, MG31 H145

General information on North American Black Historical Museum in Amherstburg, Ont., conference proceedings, reports on Black education and employment opportunities, records regarding the Symposium on Multiculturalism and the Black Presence in the Canadian Mosaic, 1977.

Clarence S. Bayne fonds, MG31 H181, 12 vols.

Work-related papers, records collected by Dr. Bayne relating to the history and political development of the Black community in Montreal, files related to the Negro Citizenship Centre, West India House and the Conference on West Indian Affairs, papers relating to the Trinidad and Tobago Association, documents related to the NBCC, subject files dealing with issues and topics relating to the recent history of the Canadian Black Community.

Ward Chipman fonds, MG23 D1, Series II, Vol. 76, f 49-51

Brief on behalf of the Slaves, Supreme Court, New Brunswick, 1800.

John Harewood fonds, MG31 H144, 2 vols.

Letters and NBCC materials.

Wilson Adonijah Head fonds, MG31 D148

Personal papers, correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, reports and articles relating to Dr. Head’s leadership in the Afro-Canadian Black community, his studies in discrimination against People of Color and his participation in the civil liberties movement in Canada. Also materials relating to Dr. Head’s academic and community interests.

Daniel G. Hill fonds, MG31 H155, 40 vols.

Personal papers, correspondence relating to the Federal Human Rights Commission and related issues, consultation reports etc. regarding projects and proposals, human rights resource material, resource material related to human rights commissions, material related to Black history in Canada, multicultural and interethnic resource material, news-clippings, and publications. The material related specifically to Black history in Canada can be found in Series F, Vols. 23-29.

William King fonds, MG24 J14, 10 cm. originals., 1 reel microfilm (C-1462)

Autobiography, correspondence, birth and death certificates, obituaries, wills, school records, copies of speeches, bills of sale for slaves, a license to preach in the Free church and other miscellaneous documents relating to the Buxton Mission and the Elgin Association. Selected newspapers.

Slavery, 1664-1800, MG55/23, no.51

Notes and copies of documents dealing with slavery.

Blundell Rainford and Company, Great Britian fonds, MG54, no.74

Pocket ledger of Robert Rainford, recording business transactions and Blundell Rainford and Company, 1779-1796. Included are alphabetical lists of bondsmen; lists of the adventures of various vessels carrying sugar, rum, cotton, mahogany, logwood, indigo, silver, gold, coffee, etc. and African slaves; and lists of bills of exchange, commissions and discounts, etc.

Dorothy Wills fonds, MG31 H179, 16 vols.

Personal materials, correspondence, reports, briefs and minutes of meetings dealing with a variety of institutions and organizations, manuscripts, articles notes and addresses delivered by Dorothy Wills, publication material, scrapbooks and albums.

Paul Winn, MG31 H191

Correspondence, reports, financial records and other material relating to Paul Winn and his activities in the Afro-Canadian community in Nova Scotia and Canada.

Quebec, Greffes de notaires, MG8 A23, Vol. 111, file 11.

Deed of sale of mulatto slave.

Nova Scotia- Local Records- Shelburne, MG9 B9-14, vol. 1, file 3.

Minute book of the proceedings of the Port Roseway Associates, 1782-1783, including as well a list of Associates, a muster roll of free Negroes at Birchtown, Port Roseway, 1784 etc.

John A. MacDonald fonds, MG26 A, Vol. 297, P. 136065.

Recruitment poster.

Chapleau, Samuel Edmour St. Onge, MG30 E309, vol. 1.

Commission, U. S. Army.

Government Record Collections

Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East : Civil Secretary correspondence, RG4 A1 Vol. 66.

Petition Against Freeing Slaves

Upper Canada : Petitions and Addresses, 1792-1841, RG5 B3 Vol. 12, p. 1552

Petition to the Queen

Upper Canada Sundries (correspondence of the Civil and Provincial Secretaries) RG5 A1 Vol. 100, p. 56286.

Baltimore letter, May/June 1830

British Military and Naval Records, RG8, Vol. 1702 (Militia Records Accumulated by the Claus Family).

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