Black History Month Non-Fiction for Adults

A selection of non-fiction books that highlight the history, accomplishments and experiences of Black Canadians.

Updated January 25, 2025
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Greater Victoria Public Library
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The hanging of Angélique : the untold story of Canadian slavery and the burning of old Montréal
Cooper, Afua.
Paper Book
During the night of April 10, 1734, Montréal burned. Marie-Joseph Angélique, a twenty-nine-year-old slave, was arrested, tried, and found guilty of starting the blaze that consumed forty-six buildings. Suspecting that she had not acted alone and angered that she had maintained her innocence,...
Policing Black lives : state violence in Canada from slavery to the present
Maynard, Robyn
Paper Book
Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state...
Shame on me : an anatomy of race and belonging
McWatt, Tessa
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR NON-FICTION   Interrogating our ideas of race through the lens of her own multi-racial identity, critically acclaimed novelist Tessa McWatt turns her eye on herself, her body and this world in a powerful new work of non-fiction...
Unsettling the Great White North : Black Canadian history
Johnson, Michele A.
Paper Book
An exhaustive volume of leading scholarship in the field of Black Canadian history, Unsettling the Great White Northhighlights the diverse experiences of persons of African descent within the chronicles of Canada's past. The book considers histories and theoretical framings within the...

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