The Freedom-seekers: Blacks in Early CanadaBook Society of Canada, 1981 - 242 էջ 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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... north , particularly in the Detroit area . Settlers farther east bought slaves from the Mis- sissaugas . Traders of the Six Nations sold slaves to settlers in the Niagara region . Sarah Ainse , a famous Native trader , owned " one or ...
... north , particularly in the Detroit area . Settlers farther east bought slaves from the Mis- sissaugas . Traders of the Six Nations sold slaves to settlers in the Niagara region . Sarah Ainse , a famous Native trader , owned " one or ...
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... north star ; on cloudy nights she guided herself by the moss growing on the north side of trees . Her parties used disguises while they travelled through the South and fake passes when they reached Northern states . They took shelter in ...
... north star ; on cloudy nights she guided herself by the moss growing on the north side of trees . Her parties used disguises while they travelled through the South and fake passes when they reached Northern states . They took shelter in ...
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... North four years earlier . An American visit- ing Hamilton recognized Happy and reported him to the town's authorities , who at once had him arrested . Happy denied the charge of theft . He claimed that he had borrowed the horse ...
... North four years earlier . An American visit- ing Hamilton recognized Happy and reported him to the town's authorities , who at once had him arrested . Happy denied the charge of theft . He claimed that he had borrowed the horse ...
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