The Freedom-seekers: Blacks in Early CanadaBook Society of Canada, 1981 - 242 páginas Black Loyalists and their families were among the first settlers in Nova Scotia and Upper Canada. As abolitiion movements and the Underground Railroad gained support, Black slaves and refugees flooded into Canada determined to build new lives for themselves and their children. The Freedom-Seekers chronicles the phenomenal success story of their struggle to break the chains of slavery and gain the full rights of citizenship in their adopted country. |
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... Bush . They went in as individual families and they managed on their own . In 1844 missionaries reported 108 Black ... Queen's Bush , where they had heard that settlers could buy land at a reasonable price . Little later described ...
... Bush . They went in as individual families and they managed on their own . In 1844 missionaries reported 108 Black ... Queen's Bush , where they had heard that settlers could buy land at a reasonable price . Little later described ...
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... Queen's Bush and other areas . At any rate , by 1852 the esti- mated Black population of Brantford and its environs was fewer than 100 persons . Black settlers in the Queen's Bush fared badly dur- ing the 1840s and ' 50s . In fact ...
... Queen's Bush and other areas . At any rate , by 1852 the esti- mated Black population of Brantford and its environs was fewer than 100 persons . Black settlers in the Queen's Bush fared badly dur- ing the 1840s and ' 50s . In fact ...
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... Queen's Bush , which began in the 1850s , was complete by the end of the American Civil War . Bishop Nazrey of the BME Church reported in 1865 : " I visited Peel Town- ship and found scarcely enough people there to give our minister ...
... Queen's Bush , which began in the 1850s , was complete by the end of the American Civil War . Bishop Nazrey of the BME Church reported in 1865 : " I visited Peel Town- ship and found scarcely enough people there to give our minister ...
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Opposition to Slavery | 14 |
The Road to Freedom | 24 |
Refugees and Their Havens | 44 |
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Abbott abolitionist American Amherstburg Anderson Ruffin Abbott anti-slavery arrived Baptist Church became began BENJAMIN DREW Black children Black community Black families Black population Black refugees Black settlers Black slaves Board bought Brant Brantford British Brown building built Butler Buxton Canada West Captain Catharines Chatham Collingwood colony colored common school Company congregation County Detroit district Elgin escaped slaves farm free Blacks freedom fugitive slaves George grants Hamilton Henry Bibb Henson Ibid Isaac Riley James John Josiah Henson King Street labourers Lake land later lived London Loyalists Mary Ann Shadd meeting Methodist Mission Negro Niagara North Nova Scotia Ontario Owen Sound owners Peter Presbyterian province Provincial Freeman pupils Queen's Bush Reverend River runaways Sandwich school for Black settled Simcoe Simcoe County slave-owners slavery Society sold teacher Toronto town town's Township Underground Railroad Upper Canada Wilberforce William Windsor York
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