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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... settlement for free Blacks was to be estab- lished . Thomas Peters , a former sergeant in the Black Pioneers ... settlement of Oro along a road one concession2 east of Penetanguishene Road . The road planned as frontage for the Black ...
... settlement for free Blacks was to be estab- lished . Thomas Peters , a former sergeant in the Black Pioneers ... settlement of Oro along a road one concession2 east of Penetanguishene Road . The road planned as frontage for the Black ...
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... settlement at Oro . and Davenport.15 The last known survivor of the original Black settlement was James Dixon Thomp- son , 16 a sheep - shearer and a grandson of David Thompson . James Thompson died in Barrie on December 21 , 1949 ...
... settlement at Oro . and Davenport.15 The last known survivor of the original Black settlement was James Dixon Thomp- son , 16 a sheep - shearer and a grandson of David Thompson . James Thompson died in Barrie on December 21 , 1949 ...
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... Settlement would become a place of refuge for fugitive slaves and [ they prayed ] that people of color might not be encouraged to take up their resi- dence in the province.31 Any effort to attract settlers to Wilberforce was finished by ...
... Settlement would become a place of refuge for fugitive slaves and [ they prayed ] that people of color might not be encouraged to take up their resi- dence in the province.31 Any effort to attract settlers to Wilberforce was finished by ...
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The Road to Freedom | 24 |
Refugees and Their Havens | 44 |
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