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Book SynopsisAcknowledgements
An Introduction to The Black Press: A Shadowed Canadian Tradition
Claudine Bonner, Boulou Ebanda de B’béri, Nina Reid-Maroney
Part One: The Black Press and the Abolitionist Context
1. An Education without Walls: The Voice of the Fugitive and the Provincial Freeman as an Unconventional Classroom
Lorene Bridgen-Lennie
2. The Black Press and The Voice of the Bondsman
Neil Brooks, Nina Reid-Maroney, Scott Schofield
Part Two: Reconstructing the Black Press, 1870–1900
3. As Seen in the News: Representations of Blackness in the Mainstream Nova Scotian Newspapers, 1867–1910
Claudine Bonner
4. Georgiana Whetsel and the Case for Nineteenth-Century Black New Brunswick Newspaper Culture
Jennifer Harris
5. “Read. Important.” Anderson Ruffin Abbott’s Missionary Messenger Scrapbooks
Nina Reid-Maroney
Part Three: Representation and Activism in the Twentieth Century
6. “You Will Do the Race and Yourselves Much Good”: The Black Athlete and Sport Discourse in The Clarion (1946–1949)
Ornella Nzindukiyimana
7. Brand Advertising in Contrast in the 1970s: Selling Race and Culture Through Beer
Cheryl Thompson
List of Contributors
Index
