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Black Refugees in Canada: Accounts of Escape During the Era of Slavery

Black Refugees in Canada: Accounts of Escape During the Era of Slavery

Hendrick, George
Hendrick, Willene

Paperback

Canadian HistoryBlack American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0786447338
ISBN13: 9780786447336
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Mar 15 2010
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Thousands of black people sought refuge in Canada before the U.S. Civil War. While most refugees encountered at least some racism among Canadian citizens, many of those same refugees also thrived under the auspices of the Canadian government, which worked to protect blacks from the U.S. slaveowners who sought to re-enslave them. This work brings to light the life stories of several nineteenth-century black refugees who managed to survive in their new country by gaining work as barbers, postal carriers, washerwomen, waiters, cab owners, ministers, newspaper editors, and physicians. The book begins with a short historical account of blacks in Canada from 1629 until the early 1800s, when the first groups of escaped slaves began to enter the country.

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