White North: Canadian Racism ; Image as Paragon of Racial Peace and Justice Is Being Challenged

Ap, St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)

For more than 150 years, Canadians have congratulated themselves on their country's tradition of racial equality. While their cousins to the south were undergoing the agonies of a bloody civil war followed by more than a century of oppression and strife, Canada regarded itself as an asylum for runaway slaves then as a paragon of racial peace and justice.

But a recently published book, "Towards Freedom: The African- Canadian Experience," by Ken Alexander and Avis Glaze shows the picture isn't quite so rosy as many Canadians like to think.

The book points out that:

Slavery was banned in parts of the United States 47 years before the 1833 British Emancipation …

Questia, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning. www.questia.com
Publication information: Article title: White North: Canadian Racism ; Image as Paragon of Racial Peace and Justice Is Being Challenged. Contributors: Ap - Author. Newspaper title: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO). Publication date: March 16, 1997. Page number: 11C. © 2008 St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

This material is protected by copyright and, with the exception of fair use, may not be further copied, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means.