How do we find the stories of enslaved people in Canada beyond the stories of the Underground Railroad? How do we unsettle the notion that slavery in Canada was benign? How do we use our imagination to place these people into our historical understanding of Canada? Join Dr. Michele Johnson and Dr. Funke Aladejebi as they show us how to read Canadian runaway slave ads and use our historical imagination to build lives for people who were not able to leave the same records we often use to learn Canadian history. This conversation is just the start of the rich conversations found in the edited collection, Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History, published by University of Toronto Press (2022).

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