The African Canadian Legal Odyssey —— Historical Essays

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ISBN: 9781442666801 出版年：2012 页码：500 Walker, Barrington University of Toronto Press

1) Introduction: From A Property Right to Citizenship Rights - The Black Canadian Legal Odyssey - Barrington Walker (Department of History, Queen's University) Legal Pioneers 2) Ethelbert Lionel Cross, Toronto's First Black Lawyer - Susan Lewthwaite (Independent Scholar) Previously published in Constance Backhouse and W. Wesley Pue, eds., The Promise and Perils of Law: Lawyers in Canadian History (Toronto: Irwin law, 2009), pp. 193-223 3) Constructing an "Imperial Pan-Africanist": Henry Sylvester Williams as a University Law Student in Canada - J. Barry Cahill (Independent Scholar) Formal Legal Equality and Anti-Black Discrimination: Case Studies 4) Racial Segregation in Canadian Legal History: Viola Desmond's Challenge, Nova Scotia, 1946 - Constance Backhouse (Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa) Previously published in Dalhousie Law Journal, Volume 17, 1994, pp. 299-362 5) Creating the Myth of 'Raceless' Justice in the Murder Trial of R. v. Richardson, Sandwich, 1903 - Susan McKelvey (York University) 6) Maniacal Murderer or Death Dealing Car: The Case of Daniel Perry Sampson, 1933-1935 - David Steeves (Independent Scholar) 7) The Law's Confirmation of Racial Inferiority: Christie v York, 1939 - James W. St. G. Walker (Department of History, University of Waterloo) Previously published as Chapter 3 of Walker, "Race," Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada: Historical Case Studies (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997), pp. 122-180 8) Errors of Fact and Law: Race, Space and Hockey in Christie v. York - Eric Adams (Faculty of Law, University of Alberta) Previously published in University of Toronto Law Journal, 2012 Slavery, Race and the Burden of History 9) Slavery and Slave Law in the Maritimes - David Bell, Faculty of Law (University of New Brunswick) J. Barry Cahill (Independent Scholar) and Harvey Amani Whitfield (Department of History, University of Vermont). Edited and consolidated by Philip Girard. Previously published as David G. Bell, 'Slavery and the Judges of Loyalist New Brunswick,' University of New Brunswick Law Journal, Volume 31, 1982, pp. 9-42 J. Barry Cahill, 'Slavery and the Judges of Loyalist Nova Scotia,' University of New Brunswick Law Journal, Volume 43, 1994, pp. 73-135 and J. Barry Cahill and H. Armani Whitfield, 'Slave Life and Slave Law in Colonial Prince Edward Island, 1769-1825,' Acadiensis, Volume 38, 2009, pp. 29-51. 10) The Burden of History: Race, Culture, African Canadian Subjectivity and Canadian Law in R v. Hamilton - David Sealey (formerly Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto) 11) A Black Day in Court: "Race" and Judging in R. v. RDS - James W. St. G. Walker (Department of History, University of Waterloo)