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Mary Ann Shadd's pamphlet A Plea for Emigration; or Notes of Canada West is, as the title promises, a settler guide designed to inform prospective immigrants of conditions in their proposed new home. But whereas most such works were addressed to potential white emigrants to North America from Britain or continental Europe, Shadd's aimed to entice black Americans to emigrate to Canada.
The introduction and background materials included in the volume situate Shadd's pamphlet in its political and cultural context, and in the context of Shadd's own remarkable life as an abolitionist, women's rights activist, writer, and educator.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Mary Ann Shadd: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
A Plea for Emigration; or Notes of Canada WestIn Context
From Harriet Martineau, Society in America
From Frederick Douglass, Life of an American Slave
From William H. Smith, Smith's Canadian Gazetteer
From The Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
From The Provincial Freeman (24 March 1854)
Works Cited and Select Bibliography