Bryan Prince is an award-winning author and a descendant of slaves who came to Canada prior to the American Civil War. Among his many projects, he is a director and historian with the Buxton National Historic Site and Museum, a partner of York University’s Harriet Tubman Institute, and a consulting editor with the Adam Matthew Publications digital project Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice in England. He is the author of I Came As a Stranger: The Underground Railroad, which won the 2005 Children’s Nautilus Book Award for Non-Fiction. He lives in Buxton, Ontario.