Plea For Emigration

Originally published in 1852, Mary A. Shadd’s A Plea for Emigration; or, Notes of Canada West appears here for the first time in print since the 1850s. Many emigrant guides have been accorded classic status in the realm of early Canadian literature, among them Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush and Catherine Parr Trail’s The Canadian Settler’s Guide. Shadd’s document sheds new, intriguing light on Canadian history and African-Canadian realities in the nineteenth century.