The Fluid Frontier

Blacks and the Detroit River Region. A Focus on Henry Bibb

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8895993
AutoresAfua Cooper (autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Volume30
Fascículo2
Páginas127-148
Data de publicação2000-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCanadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X
EditoraUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cras-s030-02-02
OpenAlexW2313686171
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas16

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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