Bryan Prince
Author, Director and Historian for the Buxton National Historic Site.
Contributor Biography
Mr. Prince is an award-winning author, a farmer and a descendant of slaves who came to Canada before the American Civil War. He is a Director and Historian at the Buxton National Historic Site & Museum and a partner at York University's Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples. He is actively involved in the Ontario Bicentenary Commemorative Committee on the Abolition of the British transatlantic slave trade. He has served on several other organizations in Ontario and the United States that focus on this period of history, including the African Canadian Heritage Network, and Ontario's Underground Railroad Alliance.
His books include the histories I Came as a Stranger: The Underground Railroad (Tundra Books, 2004) and A Shadow on the Household (McClelland & Stewart, 2009). He also wrote the script for the television documentary A Thousand Miles to Freedom (Rogers Omni Television, 2004) and was a co-producer for the concert series The Road to Freedom. He has lectured extensively in North America, and, in 2002, was awarded the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal for Contributions to History.
He lives with his wife, Shannon, and their four children in Buxton, Ontario, a former fugitive slave settlement. He is the sixth generation of his family to do so.
