Natasha Henry-Dixon | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Natasha Henry-Dixon

Natasha Henry-Dixon is an assistant professor of African Canadian History at York University. She is also a curriculum consultant specializing in the development of learning materials that focus on the African diasporic experience. She is the author of Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada (2010) and Talking About Freedom: Celebrating Freedom in Canada (2012). Natasha has written several entries for The Canadian Encyclopedia on African Canadian history.

Follow Natasha @NHenryFundi or see more of her work at Teaching African Canadian History and One Too Many: Enslaved Africans in Early Ontario, 1760-1834.

Articles by Natasha Henry-Dixon

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