Barbara Castle Barbara Castle Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC, GCOT ("née" Betts; 6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her the longest-serving female MP in the history of the House of Commons until that record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody. She later became the Member of the European Parliament for Greater Manchester from 1979 to 1989 and subsequently a member of the House of Lords, having been granted a life peerage in 1990. One of the most significant
The Blackburn Riots a Canadian crime because slavery had just been made illegal by the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. The principal of this action was that Canada would not return slaves to their masters in the United States no matter what they had done. This established Canada as a safe terminus for the Underground Railroad. The Blackburn case was the first to be decided under that law. The Blackburns were released from jail, spent some time in Amherstburg, and then permanently relocated to Toronto in 1834. The Blackburn Riots The Blackburn riots occurred during the summer of 1833 in Detroit, Michigan. They