Nova Scotia town removes Haliburton’s Sam Slick imagery


Oct 14, 2020

It wasn’t until an illustration from one of Thomas C. Haliburton’s books was reproduced in a festival program that many in Windsor, N.S. became aware of the racist content in The Clockmaker, a book written in the 1830s featuring the satirical character of Sam Slick.

The illustration depicting a Black man on his knees in front of the clock-peddler Slick was immediately identified by residents as racist, spurring a decade-long conversation in the east coast town where Haliburton lived, and which celebrated Sam Slick Days from the 1970s to 2009.

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