The Studio Museum of Harlem is at the top of the list of independent cultural institutions we must support. This week the museum offered a preview of the opening of its extraordinary new building on 125th Street. Director Thelma Golden is a leader without parallel. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...

#OTD Oct. 28, 1830, Josiah Henson (abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor, leader, minister, author, orator), his wife, and four children arrived in Fort Erie, Upper Canada. Their freedom journey took them through Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, by ship to Buffalo, and across the Niagara River.

What did the everydayness of racial chattel slavery look like in Upper Canada beyond enslaving? I explore this question in my talk. Join us on Oct. 15th! Register here: www.thecounty.ca/residents/se...

What did the everydayness of racial chattel slavery look like beyond enslaving? I explore this question in my talk. Join us!

Looking forward to speaking in Prince Edward County next month! Registration info: www.thecounty.ca/residents/se...

Looking forward to speaking in Prince Edward County next month! Registration info: www.thecounty.ca/residents/se...

Resharing my recent article in recognition of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition today (August 23rd).

Resharing my recent series of biographies in recognition of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition today (August 23rd).

Looking to learn more about #EmancipationDay? Check out Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada by @nhenrydixon.bsky.social Order here: buff.ly/LCQWGcb

Today marks the 191st anniversary of Emancipation Day marks, commemorating the abolition of slavery across most of the British empire including Canada, on Aug. 1, 1834. The longstanding annual cultural tradition recognizes this legal milestone that ushered in freedom, honours the determination 1/2

Looking forward to my talk next week at Dundas Museum and Archives on July 31st at 6:30PM for Not Yet Free: Black Enslavement in the Hamilton-Burlington Region & Slavery in Upper Canada Before 1834, an Emancipation Day themed presentation. This event is FREE and open to the public. RSVP here:

Looking forward to my talk this Thursday! www.dundastoday.com/local-news/d...

“The inquiry found that Edinburgh University became a “haven” for professors who developed theories of white supremacism in the 18th and 19th centuries, and who played a pivotal role in the creation of discredited “racial pseudo-sciences” that placed Africans at the bottom of a racial hierarchy”

Looking forward to my talk next Thursday! www.dundastoday.com/local-news/d...

Looking forward to my talk next week at Dundas Museum and Archives on July 31st at 6:30PM for Not Yet Free: Black Enslavement in the Hamilton-Burlington Region & Slavery in Upper Canada Before 1834, an Emancipation Day themed presentation. This event is FREE and open to the public. RSVP here:

Happening this Sunday! This year marks the 191st commemoration of Emancipation Day. Learn more about the history of this Black tradition at my upcoming talk.

Such an honour to work with Guelph Black Heritage Society and Ontario Heritage Trust to write the historical background and plaque text for the new heritage plaque recognizing the Guelph BME Church, that was unveiled yesterday. It was a lovely ceremony.

Looking forward to presenting, "Freedom Realized and Delayed: The Historical Significance of Emancipation Day in Canada" on July 27th at 2pm at the Simcoe Street Theatre in Collingwood, hosted by the Sheffield Park Black History Museum. Get your tickets! www.eventbrite.ca/e/freedom-re...

The new foreword and the introduction of my revised and expanded edition of Policing Black Lives with Duke University Press and Fernwood has been published on the Duke website bit.ly/3Tv16oQ now available for pre-order. Discount code in the US and worldwide is E26MYNRD

On July 9, 1793 the Act to Limit Slavery passed, influenced by the Chloe Cooley incident. Read about it and her life here:

Looking forward to presenting, "Freedom Realized and Delayed: The Historical Significance of Emancipation Day in Canada" on July 27th at 2pm at the Simcoe Street Theatre in Collingwood, hosted by the Sheffield Park Black History Museum. Get your tickets! www.eventbrite.ca/e/freedom-re...

It's an honour to with Ontario Heritage Trust @onheritage.bsky.social as the historical consultant for this plaque. Please join us if you can. myemail.constantcontact.com/You-are-invi...

Happening tomorrow!

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’

Looking forward to presenting, "Finding Bet in Belleville: The Archives of Slavery in Upper Canada" at the Belleville Public Library on June 26 at 2pm. Registration info here: www.bellevillelibrary.ca/event/findin...

Looking forward to presenting, "Finding Bet in Belleville: The Archives of Slavery in Upper Canada" at the Belleville Public Library @bellevillelibrary.bsky.social on June 26 at 2pm. www.intelligencer.ca/news/histori...

quinteist.com/historian-dr... By @quinteist.bsky.social

My next public talk is part of the Robarts virtual Summer Institute. I'll be presenting, "Reinterpreting Public Spaces in Toronto w/ the Black Presence in Mind." Registration info here:

quinteist.com/historian-dr... By @quinteist.bsky.social

Acadiensis is looking for submissions to the journal, and we have a newly updated website. Check out the announcement's in: English: acadiensis.wordpress... Français: acadiensis.wordpress...

Looking forward to presenting my paper, " Reinterpreting Public Spaces in Toronto with the Black Presence in Mind" on the panel Naming Power: White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and the Politics of Place Names in Ontario at the Canadian Historical Association annual meeting this week.

Looking forward to presenting, "Finding Bet in Belleville: The Archives of Slavery in Upper Canada" at the Belleville Public Library @bellevillelibrary.bsky.social on June at 2pm. www.intelligencer.ca/news/histori...

Looking forward to presenting, "Finding Bet in Belleville: The Archives of Slavery in Upper Canada" at the Belleville Public Library @bellevillelibrary.bsky.social on June at 2:00 pm. Registration information can be found here: www.bellevillelibrary.ca/event/findin...

Read my latest article with @spacing.bsky.social "They Were Right Here: Tracing Black People Enslaved in the Town of York (Toronto)" spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

The sleuthing behind groundbreaking entries of early Black Torontonians in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, by Natasha Henry-Dixon. #TOpoli #CDNpoli spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

Read my latest article for @spacing.bsky.social

The @dcb-dbc.bsky.social (@dbc-dcb.bsky.social en français) could not have been happier to collaborate with @nhenrydixon.bsky.social on this work -- we are excited for readers to see the 'behind the scenes' of it all! www.biographi.ca/en/topics/to...

A plantation museum focused on the truths of slavery had two grants for Black history and culture terminated in ‘furtherance of president’s agenda’

#OTD April 7, 1837, Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott was born in Toronto. In 1861 he became the first Canadian-born Black person to graduate from medical school. #DYK Abbott served in the Union army as a surgeon and was one of the doctors who attended President Lincoln at the time of his death?

Join us online Tuesday, April 15th at 11:00 a.m. Eastern for the next presentation in our Virtual Black History Series. We're pleased to host Marie Carter for highlights of her new book about the Dawn Settlement (Dresden): log in April 15th at bit.ly/3FYYxrz.

I'll be presenting on my research at Museum London (Ontario) on April 9th in my talk "Views of Black Enslavement in Upper Canada: A New History."

Happening tomorrow! If you're in Pickering, attend if you can.

March 25th is the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Slavery is a part of Canadian history and taking the time to learn more about the Black men, women, and children held in hereditary bondage honours their lives and memory.

Have you had a chance to read our seven new biographies by Natasha Henry-Dixon? These bios highlight a little-known chapter in Canadian history: enslavement in Upper Canada. Read a topic summary and bios here: www.biographi.ca/en/topics/to...

Here are my seven biographies on Black people who were enslaved in Upper Canada. It was great working with @dcb-dbc.bsky.social to amplify their life stories.

Please join us if you can. 📖 Explore the rich history of Ontario’s early Black settlements — discover key figures, contributions, significant events, and laws that shaped Black history in the province. 📅 Date: Thursday, March 27 📍 Location: Central Library Register now at bit.ly/ppl-history.

#NewBio! John Baker (d. 1871) was “perhaps the last surviving Canadian slave.” This is the seventh and final entry in our group of seven new bios by @nhenrydixon.bsky.social highlighting a little-known chapter in Canadian history: enslavement in Upper Canada. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/baker...

My final entry for my series with @dcb-dbc.bsky.social on the lives of Black people enslaved in Upper Canada is the biography of John Baker. I trace his life from slavery to freedom.

The sixth entry in my group of seven biographies on the lives of Black people enslaved in Upper Canada with @dcb-dbc.bsky.social is the moving story of George Martin. Take a moment to read.