“[The images] highlight how a visit to the photography studio played a critical role in asserting one’s identity in nineteenth-century Black diasporic communities.” #gottagosee features photographs of men, women, and children living in Ontario in the mid-to-late 1800s, descendants of Black refugees who escaped enslavement in the Southern United States. These portraits, drawn from collections at Brock University and the Archives of Ontario, many shown here for the first tim…