A specific form of anti-Black racism: Scholars want Canadian apology for slavery leaderpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from leaderpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
More than a year after Canada proclaimed Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day, Black leaders and scholars are renewing their calls for Ottawa to make a formal apology for the country's history of slavery and its intergenerational harms.
The village of Priceville in southwestern Ontario was home to a vibrant Black community in the 1850s, but it had all but disappeared by the 1880s. Historians and descendants are trying to revive that history, starting with restoring the Black cemetery that was plowed over close to a century ago.
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Local African-Canadian historian Elise Harding-Davis can finally breathe freely now that justice has been served in the killing of George Floyd.
“I’m limp with relief,” Harding-Davis said Wednesday, a day after the conviction of Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer found guilty on two counts of murder and one of manslaughter in the May 25, 2020, death of Floyd, a Black man.
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“Living in the real world, the prospect of a police person being even arrested let alone charged and found guilty of a crime is pretty rare,” she said. “It was such a shock, in a good way.