Canadian Stage will produce the Canadian premiere of Slave Play, American playwright Jeremy O. Harris’s controversial work about race, sex and power dynamics, this fall. Set on a Virginia ...

many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and white sympathizers who helped runaways. Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of slaves safely across the Canadian ...

As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed that slaves should be emancipated, advocating a program in which they would be freed gradually. Early in his presidency, still convinced that gradual ...