The Slave Ship by J.M.W. Turner. (Barney Burstein / Corbis / VCG via Getty Images)
In the middle of 1856, the soon-to-be-celebrated poet Walt Whitman visited an impounded slave ship in Brooklyn. The taking of the ship was an unusual occurrence, as it was one of the few illegal slavers seized by an otherwise lethargic Washington, D.C., and Whitman wanted to give his readers a tour of the vessel, which had been designed to add even more enslaved laborers to the millions already ensnared in this system of iniquity, including of its hold, where those victimized were to be “laid together spoon-fashion.”
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This year is the 150th anniversary of British Columbia joining Confederation on July 20, 1871.
One of the key figures the historic event was Dr. John Sebastian Helmcken of Victoria. Three months before B.C. joined Confederation, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald sent him a letter and 150 years later, it has turned up in a private collection in the U.S.
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The handwritten letter is dated March 31, 1871, and is marked “personal” and “private.” It isn’t about Confederation, but is focused on one of B.C.’s main concerns: the international boundary with the U.S.
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Four decades on, a book about B.C. s centuries-old Black history is updated for the 21st century
42 years since it first hit bookshelves, Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia which is considered a foundational text on B.C. s Black history has been re-edited and re-released.
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Crawford Kilian is the author of Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia. The third edition was published in November.(Harbour Publishing, Submitted by Crawford Kilian)
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