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ONLY A JANITOR FROM PORTRAIT OF A JANITOR

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books by catherine meehan blount

PORTRAIT OF A JANITOR, A POETIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY

  Poems by William H. Meehan


Select poems can be read in blog posts captioned JANITOR.  


Available on Amazon.com at https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Janitor-Autobiography-William-Meehan/dp/1732485909

The Sammons-Handsor Cemetery, Dover, Kent, Ontario, Canada, Burials from 1856-1959, by Catherine Mee

REMNANTS OF FORGOTTEN FOLK


The Sammons-Handsor Cemetery, Dover, Kent, Ontario, Canada, Burials from 1856-1959, by Catherine Meehan Blount.
The Boswell, Handsor, Richardson, Wright families.


Available on Amazon.com at https://www.amazon.com/Remnants-Forgotten-Folk-Sammons-Handsor-1856-1959/dp/1732485917/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=remnants+of+forgotten+folk&qid=1633188323&sr=8-1 

OTHER suggested reading

The Queen's Bush Settlelment: Black Pioneers 1839-1965

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail

Linda Brown-Kubisch, Author

Livas Anderson settled his family in the Queen's Bush about 1840 before moving on to Rondeau in Kent County, Ontario.


Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail

W. Jeffrey Bolster, Author

Family oral tradition tells the story of Livas Anderson jumping from a ship during a fire in Charleston Harbor in 1821, but he was never enslaved. Was he a Black Jack?

Sod House Memories

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail

A Voice From Harper's Ferry

A Treasury of Soddy Stories

Meehan granddaughters Lena Speese Day and Ava Speese Day contributed a chapter about Black homesteaders and life in the Sandhills.

A Voice From Harper's Ferry

Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada

A Voice From Harper's Ferry

Edited by Benjamin Drew


This republication of Drew's, The Refugee: A North-Side View of Slavery, should be read by anyone researching their enslaved ancestors, whether or not they escaped to Canada.

The Blacks in Canada: A History, Second Edition

Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada

Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada

Robin W. Winks, Author

Robin Winks delves into the history of enslavement in Canada, the abolitionist movement in Canada. and more. Must reading for Black family historians who straddle the border.

Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada

Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada

Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada

Sharon Hepburn, Author

This is an excellent study of the Elgin Settlement, a planned Black community in Ontario. Several Canada-Nebraska Homestead families are referenced.

A Voice From Harper's Ferry

In Their Own Image, Artifacts from the Great Plains Black History Museum

In Their Own Image, Artifacts from the Great Plains Black History Museum

Osborne Perry Anderson, Author

A Voice From Harper's Ferry, A Narrative of Events At Harper's Ferry

In Their Own Image, Artifacts from the Great Plains Black History Museum

In Their Own Image, Artifacts from the Great Plains Black History Museum

In Their Own Image, Artifacts from the Great Plains Black History Museum

From the Great Plains Black History Museum.

This is a wonderful narrative and pictorial display of Black life in Nebraska and it includes a section about Black homesteaders.

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