Queen's Bush Settlement

One of the largest Black settlements with over 1,500 free and formerly enslaved Black people, in the area from Waterloo County to Lake Huron

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Works Cited

Brown-Kubisch, Linda. The Queen’s Bush Settlement: Black Pioneers 1839-1865. Natural Heritage Press, 2004.

Drew, Benjamin. The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Dundurn Press, June 2008. 

Hartman, Saidiya V. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments : Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals. W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.

---. “Venus in Two Acts.” Small Axe: a Journal of Criticism, vol. 26, no. 26, Duke University Press, 2008, pp. 1–14, doi:10.2979/SAX.2008.-.26.1.

Miles, Tiya. “Beyond a Boundary: Black Lives and the Settler-Native Divide.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 76, no. 3, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2019, pp. 417–26, doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.76.3.0417.

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LBK 31: Map of the southwestern Canada West in the 1840s, showing the location of the Queen’s Bush Settlement and other major Black communities.