Ethan Allen Homestead Museum – Sunday - February 17 – 2:00 p.m.

"African American Slave Biographies from the Canadian Maritimes" with Harvey Amani Whitfield

Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harboring escaped slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, many Loyalist families brought slaves with them when they settled in the Maritime colonies of British North America. Once there, slaves used their traditions of survival, resistance, and kinship networks to negotiate their new reality. Harvey Amani Whitfield's book, the first on slavery in the Maritimes, is a startling corrective to the enduring and triumphant narrative of Canada as a land of freedom at the end of the Underground Railroad.

Harvey Amani Whitfield is a Professor of History at The University of Vermont. Copies of Professor Whitfield's book will be available at a price lower than on Amazon and the shipping is free!)

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