Steal Away Home

The Scarborough Historical Society hosted the programme “Steal Away Home” on February 27, 2018.

The guest speaker was Karolyn Smardz Frost, author & archaeologist.

The true story of a teenage black slave Cecelia Reynolds who made the dangerous crossing into Canada at Niagara Falls to make a new life in Toronto but years later, widowed and with her children returned to her homeland Kentucky and reunited with her white mistress with whom she had grown up with.

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