In a letter addressed to Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow and city councillors, three former Toronto mayors are asking that the decision to rename Dundas Street over Henry Dundas’ alleged support for the transatlantic slave trade be reconsidered.
The decision to rename Dundas Street is historically illiterate.
-Henry Dundas led the legal team that freed an escaped slave.
-He convinced Scotland’s highest court to declare that slavery was illegal.
-He proposed an achievable plan to end slavery and the slave trade in… pic.twitter.com/0G4si89ETR— JL Dundas (@jldundas) August 15, 2023
