Research summary
Between 1750 and 1820, thousands of Black people migrated to Atlantic Canada. As Canada Research Chair in Racial Justice and African Diaspora Migration in Atlantic Canada, Dr. Claudine Bonner is shedding light on the history of these Canadians.
She is building a collaborative, multi-disciplinary network to improve our knowledge of the history of Black Canadian migration. Combining archival work, community-based research and the digital humanities, Bonner and her research team are gathering, digitizing and analyzing print, audio and visual sources from across Canada and globally. They are also studying the relationships between race, migration and labour. Their aim is to understand how migration from the anglophone Caribbean affected Atlantic Canada and how state notions of race shaped immigration.