The Heroic Ancestor: Madison Washington
Madison Washington escaped Euro-American system of enslavement to freedom in Canada. However, Washington could not continue to live free in Canada while the woman he...
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Anastacia: Saint of Brazil
Every day, at the Noir de Rio Museum, hundreds of people venerate an image of a Black woman wearing a mask and collar. They pray…...
The Hanging of Angelique
The Hanging of Angelique flips the script on the idea of Canada as a haven from slavery. During the night of April 10, 1734, Montreal...
The Black Jacobins
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James is a classical study of the only successful slave revolt in...
Up From Slavery
“Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life (after slavery) we began at the top instead of...