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History Lessons for Misanthropes

Feb 19, 2019

In this episode, we discuss the story of Alexander Augusta.  A free-born African-American who just wanted to be a doctor in Antebellum America.  He and his wife, Mary, moved to Canada to try to escape the racist attitudes south of the border, to varying degrees of success.  He returned to American to lend his medical...


Feb 5, 2019

In this episode, we discuss the murder of Frank Westwood in his Toronto home in 1894.  The accused party was a biracial woman, Clara Ford, who was known to dress as a man.  What followed was a media circus that is largely forgotten to time.

 

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