18th Century echoes at City Hall
The City has issued a news release Monday which says that City staff has recommended Dundas St and apparently anything else named Dundas have its name changed because Henry Dundas (1742 to 1811) at one time did things that delayed the end of slavery. Slavery was ended in the British Empire in 1833 with much leadership from abolitionist William Wilberforce. Wilberforce St? The staff report says: “The consensus among historians remains that the actions of Henry Dundas, regardless of his intention, resulted in the delay of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, causing more than half a million more Black people to be enslaved in the British Empire”. Release
