Part I: Introducing the Promised Land Project 1. 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 History 4. 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 Railroad 7. 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) Bibliography Index.