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In 1840, eighty-two Americans were transported from Canada to a life of penal servitude half a world away in Van Diemen's Land, present-day Tasmania. Captured in a series of cross-border raids at Short Hills, St. Clair, Windsor, and Prescott following the 1837 rebellion against the colonial government in Upper Canada, these convicts were exiled in lieu of a death sentence.Gleaned from eleven first-person accounts, Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Ma...

African Americans, as free laborers and as slaves, were among the earliest permanent residents of Michigan, settling among the French, British, and Native people with whom they worked and farmed. Lewis Walker and Benjamin Wilson recount the long history of African American communities in Michigan, delineating their change over time, as migrants from the South, East, and overseas made their homes in the state. .