Karolyn Smardz Frost - Ontarios African-Canadian Heritage: Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967

ONTARIOS
AFRICAN-CANADIAN
HERITAGE

Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 19181967

Fred Landon. Courtesy of Hilary Bates Neary.

ONTARIOS
AFRICAN-CANADIAN
HERITAGE

Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 19181967

edited by

on behalf of The Ontario Historical Society

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Landon, Fred, 1880-1969.
Ontarios African-Canadian heritage : collected writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967 / edited by Frederick Armstrong, Bryan Walls, Karolyn Smardz Frost and Hilary Bates Neary.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-55002-814-0

1. Blacks--Ontario--History. 2. Black Canadians--Ontario--History. 3. Landon, Fred, 1880-1969. I. Armstrong, F. H. (Frederick Henry), 1926-II. Walls, Bryan E. III. Smardz Frost, Karolyn, 1956- IV. Title.

FC3100.B6L36 2008 971.300496 C2008-900712-3

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Front Cover: Horace Pippin, artist. Interior, oil on canvas. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin, in honour of the 50th anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.42.1/PA. Courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944.
Back Cover: The Travis family settled in the Queens Bush, Normanby Township, before moving on to Buxton. Courtesy of Buxton Historic Site and Museum.

Table of Contents

by Dr. Bryan Walls

by Dr. Karolyn Smardz Frost

by Dr. Frederick H. Armstrong

by Dr. Frederick H. Armstrong

Canadas Part in Freeing the Slave.
Ontario Historical Society, Papers and Records, vol. 17 (1919), 7484.

A Pioneer Abolitionist in Upper Canada.
Ontario History, vol. 52, no. 2 (June 1960), 7783.

Amherstburg, Terminus of the Underground Railroad.
Journal of Negro History, vol. 10, no. 1 (January 1925), 19.

The History of the Wilberforce Refugee Colony in Middlesex County.
Transactions of London & Middlesex Historical Society, vol. 19 (1918), 3044.

Evidence is Found of Race Prejudice in Biddulph, 1848.
London Free Press (July 7, 1951), 11.

The Buxton Settlement in Canada.
Journal of Negro History, vol. 3, no. 4 (October 1918), 36067.

Agriculture Among the Negro Refugees in Upper Canada.
Journal of Negro History, vol. 21, no. 3 (July 1936), 30412.

Fugitive Slave Provides Focal Point for Change in Canadian Law.
London Free Press (August 23, 1958), 24.

The Work of the American Missionary Association Among the Negro Refugees in Canada West, 184864.
Ontario Historical Society, Papers and Records, vol. 21 (1924), 198205.

Slaves Church.
London Free Press (June 24, 1954), 4.

We Are Free, Answer of Slave to Old Massa.
London Free Press (August 23, 1924), 18.

Fugitive Slaves in London Before 1860.
Transactions of London & Middlesex Historical Society, vol. 10 (1919), 2538.

Records Illustrating the Condition of Refugees from Slavery in Upper Canada Before 1860.
Journal of Negro History, vol. 13, no. 2 (April 1928), 199206.

Social Conditions Among the Negroes in Upper Canada Before 1865.
Ontario Historical Society, Papers and Records, vol. 22 (1925), 14461.

Canadian Negroes and the Rebellion of 1837.
Journal of Negro History, vol. 7, no. 4 (October 1922), 37779.

Canadian Negroes and the John Brown Raid.
Journal of Negro History, vol. 6, no. 2 (April 1921), 17482.

Abolitionist Interest in Upper Canada, 183065.
Ontario History, vol. 44, no. 4 (1952), 16572.

Captain Charles Stuart, Abolitionist.
Profiles of a Province: Studies in the History of Ontario (Toronto: Ontario Historical Society, 1967), 20514.

The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada.
Ontario History, vol. 48, no. 3 (1956), 12531.

The Negro Migration to Canada after the Passing of the Fugitive Slave Act.
Journal of Negro History, vol. 5, no. 1 (January 1920), 2236.

Henry Bibb, a Colonizer.
Journal of Negro History, vol. 5, no. 4 (October 1920), 43747.

When Uncle Toms Cabin Came to Canada.
Ontario History, vol. 44, no. 1 (January 1952), 15.

1856 Garner Slave Case One of Horror: Missed Escape to Western Ontario, Killed Child.
London Free Press (August 15, 1953), 13.

The Anderson Fugitive Case.
Journal of Negro History, vol. 7, no. 3 (July 1922), 23342.

Anthony Burns in Canada.
Ontario Historical Society, Papers and Records, vol. 22 (1925), 16266.

Abraham Lincoln a Century Ago.
London Free Press (February 12, 1951), 4.

by Hilary Bates Neary

by Dr. Karolyn Smardz Frost

The Ontario Historical Society is to be congratulated on the publication of this lovely retrospective volume on the writings of Dr. Fred Landon.

As Chair of the Bicentenary Commemorative Committee on the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade Act, I am proud that a Roots of Freedom Grant helped support the project to reprint Dr. Landons landmark scholarship relating to Ontarios African-Canadian past.