Karolyn Smardz Frost

Karolyn Smardz Frost is a Canadian historian who won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 2007 for I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad.

Smardz Frost is a historian, archaeologist, and professor of history. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology, a Master’s degree in Classical Studies and a PhD in Canadian History.^[1] She was one of the founders of Toronto's Archaeological Resource Centre which provides archaeological education to school children.^[2]

In 1985 Smardz Frost excavated the home of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn and later told their story in I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad.^[3]

Works

• The underground railroad: next stop, Toronto! (2003) with Adrienne L Shadd and Afua Cooper
• I've got a home in glory land: a lost tale of the underground railroad (2007)

References

1. "Smardz Frost to lecture on African Canadian history at Yale"
2. Karolyn Smardz Frost - Yale University - Department of African Studies
3. Karolyn Smardz Frost - Yale University - Department of African Studies