Search Results: Black Studies from Harry E Bagley Books Ltd

Halifax, NS: New World Publishing, 2019. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. paperback w/cover port. xii, 120 pages : illustrations, map, this book a biography of Abraham Beverley Walker, Lawyer, Lecturer, Activist, chronicles his life and work, as well as the systemic racism Dr. Walker faced as Canada's first black lawyer, and first black magazine editor. He was one of eleven children of farming parents but excelled academically studying law at the National University in Washington, D.C., law at the Saint John Law School, as well as philosophy and several languages. Abraham Walker lived in the last half of the nineteenth century and was born in Kars, New Brunswick but spent his entire professional career (except for a year and a half) in Saint John..

Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2020. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. printed paper covers, xv, 576 pages : illustrations, :"It's an anthology of writings by black authors from the prairie -- from 19th-century fur traders to avant-garde writers of the 21st."-- .

Fredericton N.B.: St Thomas University, 2021. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Reprint of Earlier Edit. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper, xviii 106 pages : illustrations, portraits, Reprint and updated edition. Original edition published in 1972.This new edition of the book features a foreword by poet Thandiwe McCarthy and a preface by Funke? Aladejebi, a history professor at the University of Toronto.

Benin City, Nigeria: Ethiope Publishing Corporation, 1974. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. First Edition. vi, 147, ink sig on t.p., Ezenta Eze's play is based on the historical fact of the Aba women's riot in 1929. Size: 12mo..

Austin,: The University of Texas at Austin,, 1975. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. First Edition. illustrated paper wraps, 36 pages, one b & w illustration, ink sig on t.p.,a small crease at lower corner of front cover. Brutus was a anti-Apartheid leader and teacher who was at one time sentenced to eighten months hard labor on Robben Island where Nelson Mandella was also held. After his term he left South Africa , and for a time lived in London. He later moved to the US and taught at Northwestern and the Univ. of Texas at Austin. The poems were translated by Ko Ching-Po. Size: Oblong 8 Vo.,.

Don Mills, Ont: Longmans Canada Limited, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. decorated paper cover, xiii, 215 pages : illustrations, maps ; CONTENTS: 1. The study: theory and methodology 2. Social and economic history of Black settlement in a depressed area,3. Ethnography of Vale Haven,Ethnography of Far Town, an upper lower-class community,Basic attitudes; Work, Occupations, Poverty, authority political, RCMP, police,Role of religion; Music, Social singing; Church attendance,Attitudes toward race and race relations.Value pattern in the abstract and the problem of local Black culture,Summary and conclusions, Nova Scotia in transition and prospects for the future,Appendix I. Methodology of the study Appendix II. Questionnaire; attitude scale; Occupations rating test; Values picture test.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2013. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. cloth, dust jacket, xxiv, 595 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, 1 st edition, (full no. line) (so stated), a fine copy in a fine d,j,CONTENTS: "Ultimate extinction" --"Disunion is abolition" --"Fulfillment of the prophecies" --August 8, 1861 : emancipation begins --The Border States --"Self-emancipation" -- "By the act of Congress they are clearly free" --"A cordon of freedom" --The "preliminary" proclamation --The Emancipation Proclamation --"The system yet lives" --"Our fathers were mistaken" -- Was freedom enough?.

Zomba, Malawi: Manchichi Publishers,, 1987. Book. Fine. Paperbound. First Edition. printed paper wraps, ix, 55 pages, , ink sig on t. p. Steve Chimombo was educated in Malawi, Wales, England and the US. He holds a doctorate from Columbia Univ,.and an Honorary Fellowship in Writing from Iowa. (from the back cover) Size: 8 Vo.,.

Halifax: Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University, 1970. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. printed paepr wraps, vii, 151 pages, Size: 4 to., ((28 cm).

Boston & New York: Boston Wright & Potter New York Arno Press, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. reprint of the 1864 ed.. 8 vo,. cloth, 110 pages, some toning to edges of cover, ex lib w/ink stamp on t.p., reprint of the 1864 ed. published under title: The refugees from slavery in Canada West. .... 'the United States Freedmen's Inquiry Commission made an investigation, through one of its members, of the condition of the colored population of Canada West," "This pamphlet contains the result of inquiries and observations made during the investigation. At any time but this, an apology might be necessary for putting forth, in such a hasty and crude form, the observations and speculations which it contains. But now, when every body is asking what shall be done with the negroes, -- and many are afraid that they cannot take care of themselves if left alone, -- an account of the manner in which twenty thousand are taking care of themselves in Canada, may be interesting, even if… Read More

Toronto: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2018. Book. Illus. by Richard Rudnicki (Illustrator). Fine. Soft cover. 4 to. pictorial paper, unpaged : color illustrations, a fine copy, post will be reduced,In Nova Scotia, in 1946, an usher in a movie theater told Viola Desmond to move from her main floor seat up to the balcony. She refused to budge. Viola knew she was being asked to move because she was black. In no time at all, the police arrived and took Viola to jail. She is an unsung hero of one of Canada's oldest and most established black communities. Like Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, who many years later, in 1955, refused to give up their bus seats in Alabama, Desmond's act of refusal awakened people to the unacceptable nature of racism and began the process of bringing an end to racial segregation in Canada. .

Toronto: [Coles], 1972. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper covers, xii, 387 pages, Coles Canadiana collection.Reprint. Originally published: Boston : John P. Jewett, 1856,Cover title: The narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada. a clean, tight fine copy with small ink sig on front end paper,.