Acadia's History & Classics Dept's HIST 3443 class presents a talk by Dr. Claudine Bonner, Canada Research Chair in Racial Justice and African Diaspora Migration in Atlantic Canada. Her talk is entitled "Is there anything more to say about Africville? An exercise in reframing." and will take place in BAC 206 on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 2:30pm.

 

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.