Slavery North Fellow Talk — Sherry Johnson

Sherry Johnson, Black Geographies, Text, and the Troubling of Canadian National Narratives of a Promised Land

In this lecture, Dr. Johnson discusses two principal moments in Canadian historical narrative that depend on Black spatial movement. She will focus on the irony of geographical movement and a national narrative that requires Black people’s fixed positionality.

Fellow Talks: Spring 2026

Slavery North presents a series of talks by its fellows. This interdisciplinary cohort of scholars and artists shares research on transatlantic slavery in Canada and the U.S. North, offering new perspectives and recent archival findings.