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The Secret Life of Birchtown
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 ri...
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The Secret Life of Birchtown is an episode from The Secret Life of Canada by The Secret Life of Canada. 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...
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Published Aug 30, 2018, 38:25 long, audio available.
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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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Published Aug 30, 2018 and 38:25 long