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A Plea for Emigration : or Notes of Canada West, Paperback / softback Book

A Plea for Emigration : or Notes of Canada West Paperback / softback

Part of the A Broadview Anthology of British Literature series

Paperback / softback

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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.

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