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What we do really know about the history of black people in Canada? Sure, there's the Underground Railroad and the jazz prowess of Oscar Peterson—but what else? How about 200 years of slavery in Canada; the first race riot in North America; the false promise of "freedom and a farm"; or Birchtown, Nova Scotia, home to one of this country's first settlements of black people.
By The Secret Life of Canada4.1
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What we do really know about the history of black people in Canada? Sure, there's the Underground Railroad and the jazz prowess of Oscar Peterson—but what else? How about 200 years of slavery in Canada; the first race riot in North America; the false promise of "freedom and a farm"; or Birchtown, Nova Scotia, home to one of this country's first settlements of black people.

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