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Trapped in a mineshaft for 9 days, Maurice Ruddick sustained his companions with song and prayer.
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Frederick [né Bailey] Douglass became an advocate for enslaved Africans in America.
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Writer Daniel Hill was a Canadian human rights pioneer and prominent Black historian.
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Oro Settlement is one of the earliest Black settlements in Ontario.
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