The Fluid Frontier: Blacks and the Detroit River Region. A Focus on Henry Bibb

The French named the body of water that connects the upper Great Lakes to the lower ones “the detroit,” meaning “strait.” As a main artery of the Great Lakes and the river system of that region, the Detroit River has come to exert a crucial influence on the land and people on both its banks and adja...

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Published in:Canadian Review of American Studies
Main Author: Cooper, Afua
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 2000
Subjects:
Literature and Literary Theory
History
Cultural Studies
First Nations
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cras-s030-02-02
https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/CRAS-s030-02-02
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spelling crunivtoronpr:10.3138/cras-s030-02-02 2024-04-28T08:19:09+00:00 The Fluid Frontier: Blacks and the Detroit River Region. A Focus on Henry Bibb Cooper, Afua 2000 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cras-s030-02-02 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/CRAS-s030-02-02 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Canadian Review of American Studies volume 30, issue 2, page 127-148 ISSN 0007-7720 1710-114X Literature and Literary Theory History Cultural Studies journal-article 2000 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/cras-s030-02-02 2024-04-02T08:37:14Z The French named the body of water that connects the upper Great Lakes to the lower ones “the detroit,” meaning “strait.” As a main artery of the Great Lakes and the river system of that region, the Detroit River has come to exert a crucial influence on the land and people on both its banks and adjacent areas. From earli­est times, this river served as a natural border between the various First Nations groups that first settled the region, including the Fox, the Ojibway, the Pot­towatami, and the Ottawa, and the Europeans who came later.1 The first Europe­ans, the French, who settled and traded in the area under the lead of Lamothe Cadillac, founded the town of Detroit in 1701. This was on the side that would eventually become “American.” Soon, another settlement was established on the south bank of the river, the side that would become “Canadian.” Under the French regime, both sides were considered units of the same polity, the colony of New France.2 Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press) Canadian Review of American Studies 30 2 127 148
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The Fluid Frontier: Blacks and the Detroit River Region. A Focus on Henry Bibb
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description The French named the body of water that connects the upper Great Lakes to the lower ones “the detroit,” meaning “strait.” As a main artery of the Great Lakes and the river system of that region, the Detroit River has come to exert a crucial influence on the land and people on both its banks and adjacent areas. From earli­est times, this river served as a natural border between the various First Nations groups that first settled the region, including the Fox, the Ojibway, the Pot­towatami, and the Ottawa, and the Europeans who came later.1 The first Europe­ans, the French, who settled and traded in the area under the lead of Lamothe Cadillac, founded the town of Detroit in 1701. This was on the side that would eventually become “American.” Soon, another settlement was established on the south bank of the river, the side that would become “Canadian.” Under the French regime, both sides were considered units of the same polity, the colony of New France.2
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