The King Township Museum will be hosting a talk Oct. 19 by archaeologist Karolyn Smardz Frost, who will speak about the dramatic "lost story" of fugitive slaves, Thornton and Lucie Blackburn.

They are the romantic heroes of her book, I've Got a Home in Glory Land, winner of the 2007 Governor-General's Award for Non-fiction.

In the 1830s, the Blackburns followed the secret route of the Underground Railroad from Kentucky to Toronto, provoking along the way, Detroit's first race riot. In "glory land," Canada, they found freedom and prosperity.

A descendant of both slaves and slave owners, Frost reveals the horrors of slavery in the American South before the Civil War, and the important role black pioneers played in Ontario.

The talk will begin at 2 p.m.

The museum is at 2920 King Rd. in King City.