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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... refugees , there were a considerable number of free Black settlers . The first of these arrived in the period of ... refugees who had been behind the British lines for 12 months were to be allowed to leave the U.S.A. Many Black refugees ...
... refugees , there were a considerable number of free Black settlers . The first of these arrived in the period of ... refugees who had been behind the British lines for 12 months were to be allowed to leave the U.S.A. Many Black refugees ...
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... refugees began to arrive . As a result Canada West's Black population increased dramatically between 1850 and 1861. Most of the refugees came directly from the South ; others , like James Smith of Colchester , had lived for a while in ...
... refugees began to arrive . As a result Canada West's Black population increased dramatically between 1850 and 1861. Most of the refugees came directly from the South ; others , like James Smith of Colchester , had lived for a while in ...
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... refugees . In 1845 the African Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Sandwich Township a small mis- sion which in 1851 was re - named ' The Colored Indus- trial Society ' . In effect , the church was promoting a land - colonization plan ...
... refugees . In 1845 the African Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Sandwich Township a small mis- sion which in 1851 was re - named ' The Colored Indus- trial Society ' . In effect , the church was promoting a land - colonization plan ...
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