Terms
A form of labor where an individual is under contract to work without a salary to repay a loan within a certain timeframe.
What is are indentured servants?
The network of secret routes and safe houses that would allow enslaved African Americans to enter Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Which religious texts is slavery mentioned in? Name 2
What are the Bible and the Quran?
The free first black person on record to arrive in Canada in the 1600’s, educated and multilingual
Who is Mathieu da Costa?
The City compounded the problem by building many undesirable developments in and around this area, including an infectious disease hospital, a prison and a dump.
What is Africville?
The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
What is colonialism?
The approximate amount of time that slavery occurred.
What is 400 years?
Which ancient civilizations did slavery exist? Name 3
What are China, Greece, Rome, Arabia, Slavic areas?
The first enslaved African in Canada, a 6 year old boy in 1628
Who is Olivier Le Jeune?
A vibrant Black community in Toronto, Eglinton West.
What is Little Jamaica?
People were permanently denied their freedom unless they could obtain the means to purchase themselves or successfully escape.
When Canada would abolish slavery.
What is 1833?
Who were the key players (countries) that participated in the massive transatlantic trade of African peoples? Name 3
Who are Africans, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the French and the British?
Author of "The Book of Negros"
Who is Lawrence Hill?
A Black community in Nova Scotia, the podcast was centered around this area.
What is Birchtown Nova Scotia
The process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and businesses
What is gentrification?
Black men employed in Canada from the late nineteenth century until the mid‐1950s played an essential role during the popularity of rail travel in Canada.
What are sleeping car porters?
Most historians today believe that it was likely that around this many people were affected by the trade of African peoples.
What is around 20 million people?
She is alleged to have set fire to her masters house and destroyed nearly 50 homes in Montreal in an effort to escape
Who is Mary Joseph Angelique?
A Vancouver, BC, neighbourhood that was home to multiple immigrant communities but was known largely for its African-Canadian population.
What is Hogan's Alley?
A growing number of studies that support the idea that the effects of this can reverberate down the generations through epigenetics.
What is trauma?
When white soldiers returning to Shelburne found it hard to find jobs and compete for with black workers they went into a frenzy and took up arms against the black people.
What are the Shelburne Race Riots?
The overriding goal for the transatlantic trade in African peoples was motivated by this.
What is wealth and power (or capitalism)?
Enslaved black people enlisted to fight for the British side because they were told "fight for us and you'll have freedom and a farm at the end of the war".
Who are the Black Loyalists
In 1887 this place came to acquire a unique niche as the home of Montreal's working-class English-speaking Black community.
What is Little Burgundy?