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Canadian Black History
Educational institutions throughout Canada have been searching for many years for a unique, reliable educational tool to teach Black History and particularly the history of African/Caribbean Canadians. Dr. Dorothy W. Williams, a renowned African Canadian historian has written three celebrated books on the Black community in Montreal. Dr. Williams has also developed over the last 20 years a database on the Black experience in Canada which specializes in electronic bibliographies on Black histor -
Olivier Lejeune
L is for LEJEUNE, a young visionary,
This slave said to a Jesuit missionary
“Baptism will not improve my plight,
For I’ll still be black, while you are white.” -
Code Noir 1709 - 1864
C is for CODE NOIR,
Rules to keep down Caribbean slaves
Was later adopted in New France
To control their slaves from cradle to grave.
