Western University: Mapping the stories of formerly enslaved Black Londoners focus of new research

Western University: Mapping the stories of formerly enslaved Black Londoners focus of new research. This is London Ontario, not London England. “In 1856, Benjamin Drew, a U.S. abolitionist, travelled to Canada to transcribe the oral stories of formerly enslaved Black refugees…. But what of their lives afterwards? With Drew’s accounts as their starting point, Western researchers Miranda Green-Barteet and Alyssa MacLean are working to trace the paths these self-liberated individuals took after arriving in London.”