Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
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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