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Karolyn Smardz Frost

Karolyn Smardz Frost is a historian, university professor and author. Her specialties are historical memory, slavery and antislavery. Her most recent book, I’ve Got a Home in Gloryland: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad, won the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction in 2007.

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