Tag: slavery
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Emancipation Day 2023
Leslie McCurdy, Black Council of Windsor Essex chair discusses Emancipation Day, its history & meaning for the local Black community & Emancipation Jubilee.
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Florida schools now must teach that some Black people benefited from slavery
Irene Moore-Davis discusses Florida public schools now teaching that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills.
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Black Women in the Fight for Freedom: Reconsidering Underground Railroad Geographies & Timelines in North America.
Maria Esther Hammack discusses an exhibit curated with the Amherstburg Freedom Museum studying North & South American black women in the fight for freedom.