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Dangerous Grounds

Coming soon to a democracy near you

The Collapse of Syria

The story of a nation’s unravelling, one neighbourhood at a time

Trompe Le Toil

The modern conundrum of overwork

Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill is the author of nine books, including The Book of Negroes (HarperCollins, 2007) and Blood: The Stuff of Life (House of Anansi, 2013), which formed the basis of his 2013 Massey Lectures. More information about him is available at lawrencehill.com.

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Lawrence Hill

Chains Unearthed

A ground-breaking work on the black and aboriginal slaves who helped build New France finally translated into English May 2014
As recently as the third quarter of the 20th century, just a few substantial books existed about the history of blacks in Canada. Two scholarly works—The Blacks in Canada: A History by Yale University’s Robin Winks and The Black Loyalists: The Search for the Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra