Government of Canada recognizes Albert Calvin Jackson, one of the first mail carriers of African descent, as a person of national historic significance
[ad_1] Born November 2, 1857, in Delaware, USA, Jackson was one of more than 30,000 African American freedom seekers to come to Canada on the secret routes of the Underground Railroad. The son of an enslaved mother and a free father, Jackson was also legally enslaved. His father died before he was born, stricken with grief…