At Canadian end of Underground Railroad, issues not all black and white
Deirdre Reynolds guides a group of 12- and 13-year-old boys from Buffalo to a recreated suspension bridge that once spanned the Niagara River.
“What does that say?” she asks before they cross in a single file. “Freedom, Canada. Slavery, United States.”
One boy asks if he should run. “We are not going to run anywhere here, because it’s a museum,” she responds.
But the boy is right to ask: They are in the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center, an experiential space that allows visitors to retrace the steps of
