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Hence, this so-called Black Canadian Renaissance in Victorian Canada needs to be considered as a crucial moment in Black Canadian literature and culture since it represents the springboard of an entire abolitionist literature across diverse genres that will be intent on denouncing slavery and discriminatory practices. At the same time, as Drew’s text proves, this set of writings will pit the Canadian and American reality against each other and, in so doing, it will shun the racist practices and unequal treatment that some Black people were suffering in Canada. Besides, by expanding the centrality of Black Canada through the different geographies, the Renaissance broadens the limited understanding of Canadian abolitionism, antislavery activism, and black community building, and also sheds light to multiple literary and biographical cross-border trajectories and stories between Canada West and the United States, like Drew’s collection corroborates.

Re-Visiting “Canaan” (1845-1860): Interventions and Cross-Border Black Communities