The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada was founded in Toronto on February 26, 1851. Its membership, drawn from many sectors of Canadian life and the anti-slavery movement, also included recent refugees from the United States. http://ow.ly/HIMl30ip5oL #BHM2018 (via @LibraryArchives)

‘I was born a slave, but nature gave me the soul of a free man.’ Toussaint Louverture was one of the leading figures in the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), a precursor to the establishment of the world’s first independent black republic. He is depicted here by Jacob Lawrence (via @britishmuseum) #BHM2018

Frederick Langdon Hubbard, Chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission, 1936. He was the first African-Canadian on the TTC board. Photo: Alfred Pearson, TTC. His father, William Peyton Hubbard, was the first black politician elected in Toronto. #BHM2018 #TTC (via @TorontoArchives)