'Enslaved' reading list

Natasha Henry | Posted: November 15, 2020 7:44 PM | Last Updated: November 16, 2020

Episode 1 - Cultures Left Behind

• Slave Voyages Database (Slave Voyages.org)
• The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes (YouTube)
• The Slave Route Project (UNESCO)
• Slavery and Remembrance, the Transatlantic Slave Trade (UNESCO)
• The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on The Transatlantic Slave Trade
• 'This is a grave site': Diving with a Purpose surfaces the history of the transatlantic slave trade (CBC)

• Black history in Newfoundland
• Newfoundland in the Black imaginary (The Newfoundland and Labrador Independent)
• Artist highlights Newfoundland's slave trade connection in Bonavista exhibition (CBC)
• Black Enslavement in Canada (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Enslavement of Indigenous Peoples in Canada (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Chloe Cooley and the 1793 Act to Limit Slavery (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Enslaved Africans in Upper Canada (Archives of Ontario)
• Brought in Bondage: Enslaved Blacks in the Town of York (Myseum Toronto)

• 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.
• Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France by Brett Rushforth Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2012

• Read: If Black lives truly matter in Canada, an apology for slavery is only a first step (Spacing)
• Read: New Institute of Canadian Slavery to be set up at NSCAD University (CBC)
• Read: Apology, Truth, and Reparations: The overdue reckoning with Canada's slave past (Spacing)
• Listen: CBC Radio Ideas 2-part documentary Canada's slavery secret: The whitewashing of 200 years of enslavement
• This Diver Helps Preserve Our Underwater Stories In New CBC Series "Enslaved" (ByBlacks)
• Samuel L. Jackson's Enslaved and the lost history of Canadian slavery (CBC)

Episode 2 - Rationalization

• Stepping through Ghana's 'Door of No Return' (CNN.com)
• Slave forts case study (Understanding Slavery)
• Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions (Unesco)
• Bunce Island (Unesco)
• Slave Trade and Slave Routes: (British National Archives)
• Slave Trade Routes (Slavery and Remembrance)
• The transatlantic slave trade (Liverpool Museums)
• Wonders of the African World - Episodes - Slave Kingdoms (PBS)
• The Middle Passage - The triangular trade - National 5 History Revision (BBC)
• The Middle Passage (Africans in America, PBS)
• Slave ship in 3D video (SlaveVoyages.org)
• Slavery and remembrance: Middle Passage (SlaveryandRemembrance.org)
• Artifacts of the slave trade (Reuters)
• Gallery of artefacts (Understanding Slavery)
• Artifacts From Slave Shipwreck Arrive at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Smithsonian)

• Exhibitions & Learning online – Black History(National Archives U.K.)
• 7 Influential African Empires (History.com)
• Lost Kingdoms of Africa (BBC)

• Venture Smith, 1729?-1805. A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America. Related by Himself.
• Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701–1773)
• Olaudah Equiano, b. 1745 (pseud. Gustavus Vassa) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself. Vol. I.
• From African Prince to Mississippi Slave: Abdul Rahman Ibrahima
• The Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, an enslaved Muslim in the United States, 1831
• Summary of the Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a Native of Zoogoo, in the Interior of Africa

• Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora by Stephanie E. Smallwood, Harvard University Press, 2007
• Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage by Sowande M. Mustakeem, University of Illinois Press, 2016
• The Middle Passage: White Ships by Tom Feelings, Dial Books, 1995
• Early Civilizations of Africa by Adrienne Shadd, Rubicon Press, 2012
• African Diaspora by Natasha Henry, Rubicon Press, 2015

Episode 3 - Follow the Money

• The hidden links between slavery and Wall Street (BBC)
• The British companies that made money from slavery – and its abolition (The Telegraph)
• There are British businesses built on slavery. This is how we make amends (The Guardian)
• Lloyd's of London, other companies agree to pay slavery reparations after George Floyd protests (Fortune)
• London's Centuries-Old Insurance Market Investigates Its Slavery Role (Wall Street Journal)
• Dutch Slave Trade (Slavery and Remembrance)
• Slavery in New Netherland (Netherland Institute)
• Black Lives Matter: New hidden slave trade sites in Wales revealed (BBC)
• How Sugar Changed the World (Live Science)
• African burial area in Lagos, Portugal: Archaeologists Find Bound Bodies Of Enslaved Africans (Forbes)
• Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Bristol Museums)
• Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay (1761-1804) and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray (1760-1825)

• The history of Dido Belle, a mixed-race woman raised in British aristocracy in the 18th century. (EnglishHeritage.org)
• Who was Edward Colston and why is Bristol divided by his legacy? (BBC)
• Maroon communities in the Americas (SlaveryandRemembrance.org)

• The invisible history of the slave trade (Toronto Star)
• King's & Slavery: Academic Research (University of King's College)
• Report - Lord Dalhousie Scholarly Panel on Slavery and Race
• Torture and Truth: Angélique and the Burning of Montreal (Canadian Mysteries)

• Marie-Joseph Angélique (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Slavery in Saint-Armand (Townships Heritage)
• One teacher wants a town in Quebec to remember the slaves lying buried beneath it (The Globe and Mail)
• Slaves who fled north (UELAC.org)

• Portrait of a Haitian Woman (previously Portrait of a Negro Slave): Article Portrait of a Negro Slave (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• A painting of a woman slave is used by McGill University art historian Charmaine Nelson to tell the history of slavery in Montreal.

• Jamaican Maroons in Nova Scotia (The Canadian Encyclopedia)

• Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica by Charmaine A. Nelson, Routledge, 2017
  
• Unyielding Spirits: Black Women and Slavery in Early Canada and Jamaica by Maureen Elgersman, Taylor & Francis,, 1999
  
• Sugar and Slaves: Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 by Richard Dunn, UNC Press 1972
  
• The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal by Afua Cooper, Harper Collins, Toronto, 2006.
  
• Zong! by M. Nourbese Phillip, Wesleyan University Press, 2011
  
• British Capitalism and British Slavery by Eric Williams,Diasporic Africa Press. 2013
  
• The Transatlantic Slave Trade by Duchess Harris and Marcia Amidon Lusted, ABDO, 2019

Episode 4 - New World Cultures

• Clotilda, 'last American slave ship,' discovered in Alabama (National Geographic)
• Clotilda wreck: 'Last US slave ship' found in Alabama (BBC)

• How Slavery and African Food Traditions Shaped American Cooking (National Geographic)
• Foodways of Enslaved Laborers on French West Indian Plantations (HBO)
• The Man Who Relives Slave History Through Food (HBO)
• A Black Food Historian Explores His Bittersweet Connection To Robert E. Lee (NPR)
• A Chef Tells the Story of the Slave Trade Through Dinner (Published 2019) (NYTimes)
• A New Year's tradition, born from slavery (Washington Post)
• Why Haitian Montrealers make 'freedom' soup on New Year's Day (CBC)

• The Banjo's Roots, Reconsidered (NPR)
• History of the Banjo (Bluegrass Banjo)
• 'Enslaved' explores the banjo's African roots (CBC)
• The Slave Experience: Education, Arts, & Culture (PBS)
• African Diaspora Culture: African Diaspora Culture (SlaveryandRemembrance.org)

• Slavery and Slave Trade (The Story of Denmark)
• Danish decision to abolish transatlantic slave trade in 1792 (Virgin Islands History)

• The Underwater City of Port Royal (UNESCO)
• Jamaica's Port Royal: The wickedest city on Earth? (BBC)
• Story of cities #9: Kingston, Jamaica – a city born of 'wickedness' and disaster (The Guardian)

• M19871 | Minuets of the Canadians | Print | George Heriot | McCord Museum
• SPEAKER SERIES: CHARMAINE NELSON

• The Underexplored Roots of Black Cooking in Nova Scotia (Saveur)
• Halifax woman preserving African Nova Scotian culture through food (CBC)
• Black farmers and the food sovereignty and food security movement:: Afri-Can FoodBasket

• Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston, Amistad Press, 2018
  
• The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael Twitty, Amistad Press, 2017

Episode 5: Resistance

• The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Article on Harriet Tubman (Canadian Encyclopedia)

• Slave Ship Mutinies (Slavery and Remembrance)
• Denmark Gets First Public Statue of a Black Woman, a 'Rebel Queen' (Published 2018) (NYTimes)
• Yaa Asantewaa and the fight for the Golden Stool (BBC)
• The Amistad Case (Archives.gov)

• The Slave Rebellion Website
• A New Way to Understand Slave Insurrection (Time)
• The Five Greatest Slave Rebellions in the United States | African American History Blog | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (PBS)
• 7 Famous Slave Revolts (History.com)
• Slave revolts 1736-1832 - The captives' experience and slave resistance - National 5 History Revision (BBC)

• The Underground Railroad (PBS)
• Underground Railroad: The William Still Story (PBS)
• Underground Railroad: Canada, A People's History (CBC)
• Underground Railroad (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• 5 Canadian stations of the Underground Railroad (CBC)

• Salem Chapel, BME Church
• St. Catharines Museum
• Voices of Freedom Park, NOTL
• Amherstburg Freedom Museum
• Sister freedom monuments in Windsor and Detroit
• Buxton National Historic Site and Museum
• Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society Heritage Room
• John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum
• Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site
• Norval Johnson Heritage Centre
• Grey Roots Museum and Archives
• Oro African Church
• Sheffield Park Black History and Cultural Museum
• Montgomery's Inn
• Oakville Museum

• Online Plaque Guide

• Freedom seekers in New Brunswick: The unlikely life of an escaped slave in Saint John (CBC)
• The William Still Story, Canadian Freedom Markers: Stories of Freedom | Underground Railroad
• The Souls of Black Folk: Hamilton's Stewart Memorial Community
• African Canadian Newspapers (the Provincial Freeman and the Voice of the Fugitive)
• On the Road North Online Exhibit
• Freedom City: Uncovering Toronto's Black History

• "I'm on my way to Canada" Song Recording
• "I'm on my way to Canada": Canada and Musical Protests against Slavery
• Away to Canada by Joshua McCarter Simpson

• The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! by Adrienne Shadd et al, Dundurn Press, 2002
  
• I've Got a Home in Glory Land by Karolyn Smardz Frost, Dundurn Press, 2007
  
• Steal Away Home by Karolyn Smardz Frost, HarperCollins, 2017
  
• Shadrach Minkins by Gary Lee Collison, Harvard University Press, 1997
  
• The Ward Uncoverd by John Lorinc et al, Coach House Press, 2018
  
• Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada by Natasha Henry, Dundurn Press, 2010
  
• Finding Freedom: the Untold Story of Joshua Glover by Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2020
  
• The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself
• A North-Side View 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
• William Troy: Hair-breadth Escapes from Slavery to Freedom
• A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood, (Coloured Man:) 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
• Daddy Hall: A Biography in 80 Linocuts by Tony Miller, Porcupine's Quill, 2017
• Broken Shackles: Old man Henson from Slavery to Freedom by Peter Meyler, Dundurn Press, 2001

Episode 6: Abolition

• Exhibitions & Learning online | Black presence | Rights (National Archives U.K.)
• Abolitionism in the Atlantic World: The Organization and Interaction of Anti-Slavery Movements in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (European History Online)
• Anti-slavery in the US (Library of Congress)

• The Bicentenary of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade - A Canadian Perspective (Canadian Race Relations Foundation)
• Forging Freedom: In Honour of the Bicentenary of the British Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Erudit.org)
• From Slavery to Freedom, Heritage Matters special issue (Heritage Trust)
• The invisible history of the slave trade (The Star)
• Chloe Cooley and the Act to Limit Slavery in Upper Canada (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Slavery Abolition Act, 1833 (The Canadian Encyclopedia)

• Have you ever heard of Emancipation Day? (CBC Kids)
• In push for Emancipation Day declaration in Canada, Black community leaders say it's an opportunity to examine what freedom and liberation mean today (The Toronto Star)
• M-36 Emancipation Day 43rd Parliament, 1st Session - Members of Parliament (Our Commons)

• Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada - Library and Archives Canada
• The North American Convention of Colored Freemen in Toronto, Canada, 1851 at St. Lawrence Hall: Proceedings for the North American Convention
• Article Toronto Feature: St Lawrence Hall (Canadian Encyclopedia)
• 38 Canadians listed in the Slavery Compensation Database

• The Voice of the Fugitive: INK - ODW Newspaper Collection
• The Provincial Freeman: INK - ODW Newspaper Collection

• Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill, HarperCollins, 2007.
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan, HarperCollins, 2018.