Résolutions2024
Pre-Conference Excursion to Salem Chapel

Visitors entered the Salem Chapel where Harriet Tubman worshipped • Heard about some of her heroic and hairbreadth rescues • Explored the city where the radical abolitionist John Brown met “General Tubman” • Learned about the towns first Black settler • Learned about the early Black Baptist community • Stopped at the final resting place of a freedom seeker whose capture incited one of the largest  anti-slavery riots in American history • Discovered Niagara’s leading white anti-slavery activist • Saw where Harriet Tubman crossed into Canada • Viewed the site of one of the oldest Black cemeteries in Niagara • Learned about a fierce white politician who tried to end slavery in British Canada • Discovered the Black Loyalists • Heard about a leading Black family’s connection to the area’s oldest white church • Saw the site where a prominent member of the Confederate States of America vacationed • Found out about the establishment of an early Black military unit that was later used to patrol white labourer’s • Discovered the mistreatment of an enslaved Black woman that brought about a British law that limited slavery • Learned about a US enslaver’s  attempt to retrieve a runaway slave • Visited the grounds of a historic battlefield where Black men took up arms to defend their British homeland from an American invasion and more.