James Mink was a black man who became a respected millionaire businessman in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the 1840s when slavery was rampant in the United States. Mink was the eldest of 11 children of a slave known only as 'Mink.' His father and mother were owned by United Empire Loyalist, Johan Herkimer. Not much […]
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