Free and Enslaved Africans in Newfoundland and Labrador
History is seldom hidden. We simply need to look.
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The first Black person – the first sub-Saharan African – to set foot in Newfoundland was probably a sailor on an English supply ship involved in the fishery sometime in the first 150 years or so after Cabot’s v…
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