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Halifax’s former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday ...
And Other Poems
Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision, dealing with such themes as rebirth (physical and symbolic),...
The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal
Writer, historian and poet Afua Cooper tells the astonishing story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroy...
New light is shed on the largely misunderstood or ignored history of slavery in Canada through this portrait of slave Marie-Joseph Angelique, who in 1...
A Story of Slavery and Freedom
Often shocking, always compelling, Afua Cooper's novel is based on the life of Henry Bibb, an American slave who after repeated attempts escaped in 18...
Next Stop, Toronto!
Stories of the hopeful, brave people who fled slavery and made Toronto their home. “An engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black pe...
This is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or storytellers, but captured by slave raiders and for...
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History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements ind Beyond
Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from sla...
Poetry for children from author Afua Cooper reflecting life in the black community in Toronto and the Caribbean....
In these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new life. In this wonderful new short story anthology, ele...
Revised Edition
"Black Writers Matters: Revised Edition edited by Whitney French An anthology of African-Canadian writing, Black Writing Matters offers a cross-sectio...