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Title:Refugee : Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
Series:(Voyageur Classics)
Author:Benjamin Drew & George E Clarke
ISBN:1550028014 : 9781550028010
Format:Paperback
Size:140x215mm
Pages:351
Weight: .454 Kg.
Published:Dundurn Press - June 2008
List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Black studies: History of specific groups eg ethnic,gender,social: American history: c1800 to c1900: Canada


In the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of Canada West was just short of a million and about 30,000 black people lived in the colony, most of whom were escaped slaves from south of the border. One of the people Drew interviewed was Harriet Tubman, who was then based in St. Catharines but made several trips to the U.S. South to lead slaves to freedom in Canada. In the course of his journeys in Canada, Drew visited Chatham, Toronto, Galt, Hamilton, London, Dresden, Windsor, and a number of other communities. Originally published in 1856, Drew's book is the only collection of first-hand interviews of fugitive slaves in Canada ever done. It is an invaluable record of early black Canadian experience.