Research trip began in Halifax, Nova Scotia
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In the Black Cultural Centre Library
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Black neighborhood in Halifax-Dartmouth
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Where you find black people you find cops
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Site of former historic black community of Africville in Halifax, NS
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Africville was bulldozed by the city in 1969
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Alongside Africville: a major seaway
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Africville is now a dog park
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But two brothers maintain a protest vigil
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On the site of the old Africville School
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Africville protester Victor Carvery, descendant of Jamaican Maroons
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And his brother Eddy
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Explaining the history to ISBO researcher Curtis Muhammad
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Site of mass grave of Maroons, according to oral history
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Victor, Curtis and Eddy
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Eddy and ISBO researchers Curtis Muhammad and Kathy Fischer
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Birchtown, landing site of slaves who escaped to British during American Revolution
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Their descendants established this site
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The original museum was burned down a few years ago and relocated in the old schoolhouse
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Schools were number one priority in communities of former slaves
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Replica of a pit house at Birchtown
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Pit house description
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With no other building materials, new arrivals lived in these through their first winter
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Curtis discovers his ancestor's name with the help of Museum curator Bev Cox
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in the list from the ships' ledgers
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Hundreds of Black Loyalists later moved to Sierra Leone in West Africa
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Museum display
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Model of original museum destroyed by arson
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Emancipation paper that allowed people on the boats from New York to Nova Scotia in 1783
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Burial Ground
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Black woman leads anti-slavery press: Mary Ann Shadd Cary
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Chatham: Hotbed of abolitionism
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John Brown's rifle
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Chatham recruits soldiers to fight slavery in US Civil War
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Chatham was one-third black
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Chatham history
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UGRR in Ontario
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Young women's organization in Chatham
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A white abolitionist in Chatham: following black leadership
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Buxton, site of the historic Elgin Settlement near Chatham
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School bell donated by black folk in Pittsburgh, USA
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Excellent historical museum at Buxton
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Replica of two berths during the Middle Passage: visitors are welcome to experience them
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Replica of a slave auction block
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Photo of rebellious slave showing instruments of torture
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Diagram of the star constellations people followed on the UGRR to go North
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Black abolitionists: a more radical viewpoint than white abolitionists
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In 1793, it became illegal to import slave to Ontario, so escapees who arrived there were free
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Mass violence against slave catchers in US
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Home where slave catchers were killed
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More anti-slavery violence
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200 people free the Crosswhites
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British slave trade legally abolished in 1807
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Printing press used by abolitionist newspaper of Mary Shadd Cary
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Check out Osborne Anderson's report on the Harper's Ferry Raid
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Black abolitionists lead
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Photo of Elgin resident
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Photo of Elgin resident
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Photo of Elgin resident
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Black doll collection at Buxton museum
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Church quilting club produced bedding for residents
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Wheat thresher: Elgin was another self-sufficient community
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Scythe to harvest wheat and hay
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Seed planting machine
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Recruitment poster for US Civil War
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Signed by leading black abolitionists
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List of Chatham black men who fought in the Civil War
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Martin Delaney: Chatham resident and historic anti-racist figure
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Civil War veteran from Elgin
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A surviving original home at Elgin Settlement
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Interior of Elgin home
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Heated by fireplace
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Washing machine
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Sawmill
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What self-sufficiency means: handmade wooden pulleys
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Apple cider press
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Thresher in barn
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Elgin School: community's top priority
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Elgin school was internationally reknowned for academic excellence
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Elgin descendants today run educational programs inside the old school
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Where the children would hang their coats
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One-room school for grades 1 - 10
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The teacher taught abolition and black power inside the other academic subjects
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70 children; one teacher
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Graduates of this school became leaders of UGRR, abolitionism and Black Reconstruction in the US (also doctors, lawyers and teachers)
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Coal stove for heat
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Nearby white school closed when all the parents sent their children to Elgin for its superior academics
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Wheelchair used by young female student
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Who later became secretary to Marcus Garvey
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