After more than two centuries a page of Montreal’s history is being raised to a new level. A plaque was unveiled on Tuesday at a Montreal cemetery to honour a Black man who escaped slavery south of the border and fled to Montreal. As Global’s Phil Carpenter reports, for many Shadrach Minkins’ story represents resistance and survival.
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Emancipated slave honoured at Montreal’s Mount Royal cemetery
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