The African Canadian legal odyssey  historical essays / 
edited by Barrington Walker. 
 - Toronto :  University of Toronto Press,  (c)2012. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 483 pages) 
 - Osgoode Society for Canadian legal history .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : from a property right to citizenship rights --  the African Canadian legal odyssey /  Ethelbert Lionel Cross : Toronto's first Black lawyer /  Constructing an "Imperial Pan-Africanist" : Henry Sylvester Williams as a university law student in Canada /  "Bitterly disappointed" at the spread of "colour-bar tactics" : Viola Desmond's challenge to racial segregation, Nova Scotia, 1946 /  Creating the myth of 'raceless' justice in the murder trial of R. v. Richardson, Sandwich, 1903 /  Maniacal murderer or death dealing car : the case of Daniel Perry Sampson, 1933-1935 /  The law's confirmation of racial inferiority : Christie v York /  Errors of fact and law : race, space and hockey in Christie v. York /  Slavery and slave law in the Maritimes /  The burden of history : race, culture, African Canadian subjectivity, and Canadian law in R v. Hamilton /  A Black day in court : "race" and judging in R. volume R.D.S. /  Barrington Walker --  Susan Lewthwaite --  J. Barry Cahill --  Constance Backhouse --  Susan McKelvey --  David Steeves --  James W. St. G. Walker --  Eric M. Adams --  D.G. Bell, J. Barry Cahill, and Harvey Amani Whitfield --  David Sealy --  James W. St. G. Walker. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442666801 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Black Canadians--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.<br/>Race discrimination--Law and legislation--History.--Canada<br/>Black Canadians--Social conditions.<br/>Black Canadians--History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KE4395  / .A375 2012