I've Got  Home in Glory Land, A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
by Karolyn Smardz Frost    BIO 306.362 BLA SMA
This epic story is the biography of a fugitive slave couple whose flight to freedom in Canada changed U.S. and Canadian history.

 

Book of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill   FIC HIL
A stunning historical novel that is at once lyrical and shocking, a dazzling neo-slave narrative that spans three continents and blends known events and characters with necessary fictions.

 

Any Known Blood
by Lawrence Hill  FIC HIL
Hill's  five generation family epictraces the stories of the African-Canadian-American Cane family from 19th century Virginia to the modern suburbia of Oakville Ontario.

 

Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada
by Lawrence Hill    305.8 HIL
A journalistic memoir of mixed race identities, a companion piece to his novels.

 

The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
by Afua Cooper    971.428014 COO
This is the story of a slave accused of and hanged for burning down a large part of Montreal's merchant sector in 1734.

 

Go to School, You're a Little Black Boy
by Lincoln Alexander      BIO 971.3 ALEX
A memoir by The Honourable Lincoln Alexander - the first black man to become lieutenant governor of Ontario.

 

Whylah Falls
by George Elliot Clarke  811 CLA
A breathtaking book of poetry celebrating Canada's ethnic culture. Whylah Falls is a mythic community in Black Nova Scotia  filled with memorable characters.

 

by John Frost and Peter Meyler   BIO 973.7 HEN GLE