Dr. Natasha Henry-Dixon
@nhenrydixon.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of African Canadian History, York University | PI for "One Too Many: Black People Enslaved in Upper Canada
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NAME UNRECORDED (fl. 1802–3) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
During the colonial era of present-day Ontario, more than 600 Black men, women, and children were enslaved, many of them by white loyalists such as Matthew Elliott, one of Upper Canada’s largest slave...
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Excited to share my latest collaboration with Dictionary of @dcb-dbc.bsky.social highlighting the lives and experiences of Black people enslaved in colonial Ontario!
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#OTD Nov. 22nd, 1852, Dennis Hill of Camden, Kent County, Ontario wrote to Egerton Ryerson, Chief Superintendent of Education in Canada West decrying school segregation. Hill was one of many 19th century Black Ontarians who used various means--letters, petitions, the courts--to protest segregation.
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
#OTD Nov. 22nd, 1852, Dennis Hill of Camden, Kent County, Ontario wrote to Egerton Ryerson, Chief Superintendent of Education in Canada West decrying school segregation. Hill was one of many 19th century Black Ontarians who used various means--letters, petitions, the courts--to protest segregation.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Thanks to a generous sponsor, we are pleased to offer a fourth reprint of Black History in Canada!
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November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thanks to a generous sponsor, we are pleased to offer a fourth reprint of Black History in Canada!
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I'm so excited that another run of print copies are available. Hands down, one of the most impactful projects I've worked on. A pleasure to be the guest editor.
I'm so excited that another run of print copies are available. Hands down, one of the most impactful projects I've worked on. A pleasure to be the guest editor.
Thanks to a generous sponsor, we are pleased to offer a fourth reprint of Black History in Canada!
Sign up below to receive your FREE class sets of our very popular Kayak issue devoted to Black history. PLUS you’ll have access to free lesson plans and resources. Registration link in comments.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Get your copies asap!
I'm so excited that another run of print copies are available. Hands down, one of the most impactful projects I've worked on. A pleasure to be the guest editor.
I'm so excited that another run of print copies are available. Hands down, one of the most impactful projects I've worked on. A pleasure to be the guest editor.
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A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed
A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed
Relatives fear the move is part of ‘the same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purge
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November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed
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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...
Planting a Flag, and a Flagship, for Black Art
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November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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...
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#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.
October 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
#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!
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October 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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!
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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!
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September 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
What did the everydayness of racial chattel slavery look like beyond enslaving? I explore this question in my talk. Join us!
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Looking forward to speaking in Prince Edward County next month!
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September 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Looking forward to speaking in Prince Edward County next month!
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Looking forward to speaking in Prince Edward County next month!
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September 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Looking forward to speaking in Prince Edward County next month!
Registration info: www.thecounty.ca/residents/se...
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Resharing my recent article in recognition of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition today (August 23rd).
Read my latest article with @spacing.bsky.social
"They Were Right Here: Tracing Black People Enslaved in the Town of York (Toronto)"
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"They Were Right Here: Tracing Black People Enslaved in the Town of York (Toronto)"
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They Were Right Here: Tracing Black People Enslaved in the Town of York - Spacing Toronto
The presence of Black children, women, and men who were enslaved in Upper Canada has been omitted from, or marginalized, in the Canadian historical narrative. Because of my years of research on slaver...
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August 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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).
Excited to share my latest collaboration with Dictionary of @dcb-dbc.bsky.social highlighting the lives and experiences of Black people enslaved in colonial Ontario!
www.biographi.ca/en/bio/name_...
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NAME UNRECORDED (fl. 1802–3) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
During the colonial era of present-day Ontario, more than 600 Black men, women, and children were enslaved, many of them by white loyalists such as Matthew Elliott, one of Upper Canada’s largest slave...
www.biographi.ca
August 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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).
Reposted by Dr. Natasha Henry-Dixon
Looking to learn more about #EmancipationDay?
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August 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Looking to learn more about #EmancipationDay?
Check out Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada by @nhenrydixon.bsky.social
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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
August 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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
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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:
This event is FREE and open to the public. RSVP here:
Not Yet Free: Black Enslavement in the Hamilton-Burlington Region & Slavery in Upper Canada Before 1834 featuring Dr. Natasha L. Henry-Dixon – Dundas Museum & Archives
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July 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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:
This event is FREE and open to the public. RSVP here:
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“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”
Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds
Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories
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July 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“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 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:
This event is FREE and open to the public. RSVP here:
Not Yet Free: Black Enslavement in the Hamilton-Burlington Region & Slavery in Upper Canada Before 1834 featuring Dr. Natasha L. Henry-Dixon – Dundas Museum & Archives
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July 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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:
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.
This year marks the 191st commemoration of Emancipation Day. Learn more about the history of this Black tradition at my upcoming talk.
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!
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Freedom Realized and Delayed
The Historical Significance of Emancipation Day in Canada with Dr. Natasha L. Henry-Dixon
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July 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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.
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.
July 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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.
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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...
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Freedom Realized and Delayed
The Historical Significance of Emancipation Day in Canada with Dr. Natasha L. Henry-Dixon
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July 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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...
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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
July 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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:
No #NewBio this week. Today we highlight the stories of:
📖Chloe Cooley (fl. 1793), an enslaved Black woman biographi.ca/en/bio/coole...
and
📖An enslaved Black woman (fl. 1802–3) whose name is unrecorded: biographi.ca/en/bio/name_...
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📖Chloe Cooley (fl. 1793), an enslaved Black woman biographi.ca/en/bio/coole...
and
📖An enslaved Black woman (fl. 1802–3) whose name is unrecorded: biographi.ca/en/bio/name_...
Learn more: biographi.ca/en/topics/to...
COOLEY, CHLOE – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
One of the hundreds of Black people who were enslaved in Upper Canada, Chloe Cooley (fl. 1793) came to public attention in March 1793 after her enslaver, Adam Vrooman, forcibly transported her across the Niagara River to sell her on the American side. Two witnesses reported the incident and her desperate resistance, which directly influenced the subsequent passage of the Act to Limit Slavery in Upper Canada. In 2022 the Canadian government designated Cooley a person of national historic significance.
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July 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
On July 9, 1793 the Act to Limit Slavery passed, influenced by the Chloe Cooley incident. Read about it and her life here: