Boulou Ebanda de b’BÉri is a professor of Communication and Cultural Studies and the founding director of the Audiovisual Media Lab for the study of Cultures and Societies at the University of Ottawa. Nina Reid-Maroney is a professor of history at Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario and co-director of the Huron Community History Centre.Handel K. Wright is the inaugural senior advisor to the president on anti-racism and inclusive excellence; the director of the Centre for Culture, Identity, and Education; and a professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.

• Part I: Introducing the Promised Land Project1. The Politics of Knowledge: The Promised Land Project and Black Canadian History as a Model of Historical “Manufacturation”? (Boulou Ebanda de B’bÉri)2. Multiculturality Before Multiculturalism: Troubling Black Identity and History Beyond the Last Stop on the Underground Railroad (Handel Kashope Wright)3. History, Historiography and the Promised Land Project (Nina Reid-Maroney)Part II: From Fragments through Biography to History4. William Whipper’s Lands along the Sydenham (Marie Carter)5. Mae Alexander: Daughter of Promise (Claudine Bonner)6. “A Contented Mind Is a Continual Feast”: Tracing Intellectual Migrations through the Promised Land (Nina Reid-Maroney)Part III: Transgeographical Trajectories and Identity Formation beyond the Underground Railroad7. Resisting Imperial Governance in Canada: From Trade and Religious Kinship to Black Narrative Pedagogy in Ontario (Olivette Otele)8. African-American Abolitionist and Kinship Connections in Nineteenth-Century Delaware, Canada West, and Liberia (Peter T. Dalleo)9. Reimagining the Dawn Settlement (Marie Carter)Epilogue. Reflections: The Challenges and Accomplishments of the Promised Land (Afua Cooper)BibliographyIndex

‘This book is brilliant compilation of in-depth exciting, informative, and interdisciplinary scholarship that explores the history of Chatham-Kent.’- Karen Flynn (The Michigan Historical Review vol 41:02:2015)