The Underground Railroad in Canada
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2007-02-28/underground-railroad-canada
Before the Civil War, more than 35,000 African Americans relocated from the U.S. to Canada. Hear about a landmark court case that established the rules regarding slave extradition, and how a chance archeological discovery in a Toronto schoolyard led historians to a better understanding of the “Blackburn Riots of 1833,” the city of Detroit's first race riots.
Guests
Karolyn Smardz Frost
archaeologist, historian, and Executive Director, the Ontario Historical Society; also author of "I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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