HIST 3535 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Black Canadians, Underground Railroad, Africville
22 Apr 2019
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Intersectionality: a way a singular person occupies many identities at once. Black canadian communities (describing black people, lowercase), black canadians (describing political group, uppercase) but you can use all upper or lower. Thesis should be what you have found! Black experiences of migration, forced migration, voluntary migration. Enslavement, people being mobilized from nova scotia to sierra leone (some forced by conditions) instances where migrations were negotiated (black loyalists, jamaican maroons as they negotiated with the state) You"re in place that as a lot of poverty of low education, employment opportunities = push factors. Pull factors such as canada, place of opportunity, jobs, education. Pushed out of one place and pulled into a place that has what i need or want. Thought through african canadians built communities, buxton thrives and other cases they didn"t thrive whether it was lack of resources or pushed out of state (africville)
