Slavery North Initiative

Founded in 2022, Slavery North is a one-of-a-kind academic and cultural destination where scholars, thinkers, artists, and cultural producers build community and produce research and cultural outcomes that transform our understanding of the neglected histories of Transatlantic Slavery in Canada and the US North.

Slavery North seeks to advance social justice by recuperating and interrogating the complex histories of Transatlantic Slavery and European colonization of the Americas, thereby recovering the cultures, experiences, lives, and resistance of enslaved peoples in Canada and the US North. We do this by building a collaborative research community through fellowships, programs, events, publications, media work, and education.

At the heart of Slavery North is a fellowship program that welcomes national and international students, artists, and scholars, providing them with the space, funding, time, and community to produce transformative research outcomes.

Slavery North focuses on the following five mandate areas:

1. Canadian Slavery
2. Slavery in the US North
3. The comparative study of slavery in Canada, the US North, and other northern or temperate regions
4. The study of the inter-connectedness of slavery in Canada and the US North with Caribbean Slavery
5. Black-Indigenous relations in Canadian Slavery or US North Slavery