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VIDEO: A Conversation between Daniel Coleman & Geoff Martin
On Geoff Martin's article Slave Days in the Queen's Bush
In the early 19th century the “Queen's Bush” was a vast unsettled area between Waterloo County and Lake Huron. In his essay Slave Days in the Queen's Bush Geoff Martin takes us to the place he grew up – the Mennonite farmland of Kitchener-Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He recalls the "slave day" fundraisers of his youth and the sense of ownership he felt over this place until the history of Black settlers who had first pioneered the land beginning in the 1820s is revealed, forcing him to confront a repeated pattern of erasure and remembrance that extends to the present. To mark HA&L's 12th Anniversary, we invited Daniel Coleman and Geoff Martin to discuss the article. Click here to read Slave Days in the Queen's Bush by Geoff Martin in the previous issue, HA&L 13.1 –•–
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