6. “A Contented Mind Is a Continual Feast”: Tracing Intellectual Migrations through the Promised Land

Reid-Maroney, Nina

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“…In the spring of 1861, a Philadelphian named Parker T. Smith sold his real estate and belongings, including the treasures of his extensive library in ethnography, history, mathematics, natural science, metaphysics, moral philosophy, ethics, and logic, and moved his family to Dresden, Canada West (Reid‐Maroney, ). Smith's experiences in Canada and his decision to return to Philadelphia within a few months of his arrival in the “promised land” have much to tell us about his political aspirations and hopes for the republic that he had left behind.…”

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Possibilities for African Canadian intellectual history: The case of 19th‐century Upper Canada/Canada West

Reid-Maroney

2017

History Compass

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African Canadian intellectual history of the 19th century resonates with contemporary movements for racial justice such as Black Lives Matter, and the emergence of new scholars and activists in the vibrant field of Black Canadian Studies. Arguing that Black abolitionists and their ideologies of resistance created an intellectual culture both linked to, and distinct from, intellectual cultures elsewhere in the Atlantic world, the essay discusses new scholarship on histories of ideas, calling for a reexamination of the underground railroad as an important conceptual framework, and surveying recent work on women's intellectual histories, histories of religion, and the culture of science. Interdisciplinary research on the Black press in 19th‐century Canada reveals the importance of African Canadian intellectual history for our understanding of narratives of race, ideologies of emancipation, and the place of Canada in the Black Atlantic.

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