NOTES The next annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History will convene in Washington, D. C., next November. All institutions interested in the teaching of Negro life and history will be invited to send representatives to this meeting to confer as to the best methods of prosecuting studies in this neglected field. The session will cover two days to be devoted to addresses by the best thinkers of the country. The official program will appear within a few weeks. The illustrated textbook in Negro history by Dr. C. G. Woodson has been further delayed by disturbances among the printers. It is hoped that it will appear before the end of the year. A. B. Caldwell, of Atlanta, has published Volume III (South Carolina edition) of what he calls the History of the American Negro. 305 316 340 359 376 378 IV. Lower Canada V. Upper Canada, Early Period VI. The Fugitive Slave in Upper Canada Wiener's Africa and the Discovery of America; Johnston's A compara- NOTES: 388 THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY, INCORPORATED 41 NORTH QUEEN STREET, Lancaster, Pa. 1216 YOU STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. $2.00 A YEAR 60 CENTS A COPY FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS, 25 CENTS EXTRA BOUND VOLUMES, $3.00 by Mail COPYRIGHT 1920 BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY Entered as second-class matter January 1, 1916, at the Post Office at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 The History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War BY CARTER GODWIN WOODSON, Ph. D. (HARVARD) 460 pp. $2.00; by mail $2.15 "This book is neither a controversial treatise on Negro education nor a study of recent problems. Dr. Woodson has given us something new. 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THIS BOOK MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY 1216 You Street, Northwest Washington, D. C. Agents Wanted THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY VOL. V-JULY, 1920-No. 3 THE SLAVE IN CANADA PREFACE When engaged in a certain historical inquiry, I found occasion to examine the magnificent collection of the Canadian Archives at Ottawa, a collection which ought not to be left unexamined by anyone writing on Canada. In that inquiry I discovered the proceedings in the case of Chloe Cooley set out in Chapter V of the text. This induced me to make further researches on the subject of slavery in Upper Canada. The result was incorporated in a paper, The Slave in Upper Canada, read before the Royal Society of Canada in May 1919, and subsequently published in the JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY for October, 1919. Some of the Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada and the editor of the JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY have asked me to expand the paper. The present work is the result. I have spent many happy hours in the Canadian Archives and have read all and copied most of the documents referred to in this book; but I cannot omit to thank the officers at Ottawa for their courtesy in forwarding my labor of love, in furnishing me with copies, photographic and otherwise, and in unearthing interesting facts. It will not be considered invidious if I mention William Smith, Esq., I.S.O. and Miss Smillie, M.A., as specially helpful. My thanks are also due to Messrs. Herrington, K.C., of Na |