Possibilities for African Canadian intellectual history: The case of 19th‐century Upper Canada/Canada West
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract African Canadian intellectual history of the 19th century resonates with contemporary movements for racial justice such as Black Lives Matter, and the emergence of new scholars and activists in the vibrant field of Black Canadian Studies. Arguing that Black abolitionists and their ideologies of resistance created an intellectual culture both linked to, and distinct from, intellectual cultures elsewhere in the Atlantic world, the essay discusses new scholarship on histories of ideas, calling for a reexamination of the underground railroad as an important conceptual framework, and surveying recent work on women's intellectual histories, histories of religion, and the culture of science. Interdisciplinary research on the Black press in 19th‐century Canada reveals the importance of African Canadian intellectual history for our understanding of narratives of race, ideologies of emancipation, and the place of Canada in the Black Atlantic.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it