Slavery‘s Long Afterlife in the North
The anti-Blackness that thrives in the shadow of America’s more blatant record February 2018
At an event for her book at Montreal’s Grande Bibliothèque late last year, Robyn Maynard asked the audience of about five hundred to raise their hands if they had been taught in school about the two hundred years of Black enslavement in Canada. One man raised his hand. One out of five hundred. This in a…