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Black Refugees in Canada: Accounts of Escape During the Era of Slavery
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Black Refugees in Canada: Accounts of Escape During the Era of Slavery Paperback - 2010

by George Hendrick; Willene Hendrick


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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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  • Title Black Refugees in Canada: Accounts of Escape During the Era of Slavery
  • Author George Hendrick; Willene Hendrick
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland & Company
  • Date 2010-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780786447336 / 0786447338
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5 in (22.35 x 14.99 x 1.27 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Black History
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Library of Congress subjects Fugitive slaves - United States, Slaves - United States - Social conditions
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010002294
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Independent scholar George Hendrick lives in Port Jefferson, New York. The late Willene Hendrick was an independent scholar from Urbana, Illinois.
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