# Episode 33: Unfreedom North of the Border ft. Dr. Harvey Imani Whitfield

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Podcast: [Under the Mat: A Dark History Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/under-the-mat-a-dark-history-podcast-7022252)
Published: 2026-02-17T07:01:00+00:00
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## Resource

Host Aubrianna Snow speaks with Dr. Harvey Imani Whitfield about the history of slavery in early Canada, the lives of enslaved people during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the legacy of slavery in North America today. Dr. Harvey Amani Whitfield is a professor and Centennial Carnegie Chair in the History of Slavery in Canada at the University of King’s College in Halifax. Prior to his current role, he taught for 17 years at the University of Vermont and four years at the University of Calgary. He grew up in Maryland and attended Colorado State University. His MA at Dalhousie focused on West African history. His area of research interest is Black migration, coerced and free, to the Maritimes during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dr. Whitfield is the author of several books including Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America , 1815-1860; North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes ; Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes ; Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents ; and The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont, 1777-1810 . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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