North America owes its wealth to brutality of slavery: Canadian expert

The residual influence of slavery remains in North America today, said a Canadian racism expert on the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, which fell on Friday.

June Francis, chair of Anti-Racism Data Committee of British Columbia, director of the Institute for Black and African Diaspora Research and Engagement and a professor at Simon Fraser University (SFU), said that the trauma of the slave…