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Due to COVID-19, Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site is closed. We are creating new digital programming of our museum exhibits and capturing our story, which you can find by exploring here. Please contact us by email at utchs@heritagetrust.on.ca for any inquiries.
The Atlantic slave trade and the ensuing enslavement of millions of people of African descent led to a long history of resistance that resulted in the development of thriving Black communities in Ontario. With abolitionist and Person of National Historic Significance Josiah Henson’s life as a backdrop, we’ve captured inspiring stories that speak to the early African-Canadian experience in Ontario.
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Beyond the Underground Railroad – Black History in Chatham-Kent
This virtual forum features the curators from Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site, Buxton National Historic Site and Museum and the Chatham-Kent Black Mecca Museum in conversation with creators and researchers from across the province. Discussion spotlights successes of museums and communities across the province in bringing Black stories and achievements to the forefront.
Exhibit snapshots
Curator Steven Cook and Programs Assistant Jackie Bernard introduce you to the gallery spaces and structures on the grounds of the two-hectare (five-acre) Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site property.
Emancipation Day 2020
Each August Civic Holiday weekend, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site celebrates Emancipation Day with various speakers, performers, exhibits and cuisine that reflect the Black cultural experience in Ontario. Explore the 2020 virtual Emancipation Day celebration.
Ontario’s Black heritage
Since the first recorded arrival of a Black person in Canada in 1608, people of African descent have made lasting and continuing contributions to the development of Canada and the Canadian identity. We celebrate their roles in the building of this nation.
Views expressed are those of the interviewees/performers and do not necessarily reflect those of the Ontario Heritage Trust.