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To Go North: Stories of Black Settlement and Imaginaries of Black Sovereignty on the Canadian Frontier (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "What We Make of the West: Historical Archaeologists Versus Frontier Mythologies", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The “West” as a space of radical autonomy and economic opportunity has played a central role in shaping the logic of settler colonialism in North America during the nineteenth century. While some Black arrivants moved to Canada’s western frontier, many others moved north in search of freedom from...