Article 5N1DY How this Black woman from Niagara helped keep a Kentucky slave free and other remarkable stories

How this Black woman from Niagara helped keep a Kentucky slave free and other remarkable stories

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Desmond Brown
from CBC | Edmonton News on (#5N1DY)
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A new Niagara Historical Society book chronicles the forgotten or never-recognized stories of Black women from the region, including how one woman helped keep a Black man free after he escaped slavery in Kentucky by stealing his "owner's" horse and came to Canada.

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