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Canadians have a lot to learn about this country s history of slavery, experts say

Canadians have a lot to learn about this country s history of slavery, experts say
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Nova Scotia s slave history is marked by brutality, but it has been largely erased: scholar

Nova Scotia s slave history is marked by brutality, but it has been largely erased: scholar
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6 ways to observe Emancipation Day in Halifax

6 ways to observe Emancipation Day in Halifax
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Barry Jenkins The Underground Railroad series is unflinching

Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad and the importance of bearing witness Inhumane treatment of Black bodies, whether it’s portrayed on film or captured on a cellphone, is hard to watch. But historians say it’s important not to turn away By Heather Greenwood Davis Created for Images of Black men and women, including the recent horrific footage of George Floyd being murdered, are extremely difficult to watch. But experts say Canadians seeking a truthful understanding of their country’s history with prejudice will find meaning in depictions of racism that don’t gloss over the hard truths. Case in point:

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Halifax hosted slavers ships Now it is home to Canada s first institute of slavery studies | Arts + Culture | Halifax, Nova Scotia

Soon, she was mentally cutting and pasting scraps of information together to build a private record of the people history forgot or never noticed in the first place. “Like many other Canadians, I have never taken a class on either transatlantic slavery or Canadian slavery. I had to teach myself everything that I know, and everything that I continue to learn,” Nelson says. Alongside building a new discipline from scratch, she continued studying, getting her PhD in art history and teaching at McGill. Of course, the record-building never stopped, as her website Black Canadian Studies can attest. It is full of research papers and records, like those fugitive slave classified advertisements and bills of sale. When Nelson describes her work today, it sounds like someone piling crumbs together on a plate, rebuilding a decimated cake fragment by fragment. “I m almost always dealing with text documents, printed advertisements

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