A Plea for Emigration; Or Notes of Canada West: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition - Paperback

by Mary Ann Shadd (Author), Phanuel Antwi (Consultant), Joseph Black (Editor)

A prominent activist's guide to settlement in Canada "for the information of colored immigrants."

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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.

Author Biography

Phanuel Antwi is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia.