Black Ice: The Lost History of the Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925

Having grown up in the American South, I became fascinated with learning about the plight of slaves brought to America. I traveled some of the paths taken by slaves on the Underground Railroad. As a young adult, I reread the story of Henry “Box” Brown and how he shipped himself from Virginia to Pennsylvania to escape slavery. The story left me with new questions about other slaves who achieved freedom in the North. I asked myself, with this new-found freedom, how did they negotiate their place in their new society, how difficult was it to adopt new cultural norms, and what did they do for fun. These questions, at least in part, have been answered by brothers and authors George and Darril Fosty’s book, Black Ice: The Lost History of the Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925.