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

by George Hendrick (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $27.38

  Thousands of black people sought refuge in Canada before the US Civil War. This work presents 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.