Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda

be an asset to this country”: Canadian Restrictions of Black Caribbean Female Domestic Workers, 1910–1955. In this chapter, Johnson uses a vast archive of legislation, immigration policies and official correspondence between Caribbean and Canadian officials to argue that “Canadian immigration and other authorities sustained a deliberate and racist rejection of Black female immigration into the Dominion” (281). She links this rejection to fear of Black families and Black communities, as well as to the concomitant fear of Black women as the putative nucleus of both. Finally, Esmeralda M. A. Thornhill’s “Re-Thinking and Re-Framing RDS: A Black Woman’s Perspective” is a meticulous critical review of the aforementioned 1997 Supreme Court of Canada landmark case R. v. S. that situates the courtroom as “a colonized space of White privilege, White entitlement, and above all, White comfort” (566). Moving into the present, Thornhill’s perceptive essay concludes that Black Canadians are still construed “as disruptive of the country’s touted founding image: ‘a White man’s country’” (540). Unsettling the Great White North is a timely, comprehensive and major contribution to the field of Black Canadian history. Barring the puzzling omission of an index, this is a truly impressive collection in both ambition and execution. Surely it will become a vital resource to all students of Canadian history.