My Brother's Keeper
The story of African Canadians who fled slavery in the United States but returned to enlist in the Union forces during the American Civil War.
On New Year’s Eve in 1862, blacks from across British North America joined in spirit with their American fellows in silent vigils to await the enactment of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The terms declared that slaves who were hel...
The story of African Canadians who fled slavery in the United States but returned to enlist in the Union forces during the American Civil War.
On New Year’s Eve in 1862, blacks from across British North America joined in spirit with their American fellows in silent vigils to await the enactment of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The terms declared that slaves who were hel...
