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Henry Bibb
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In 1849, Henry Bibb published <em>Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself</em> in which this picture appears. It is interesting that he chose a handbill advertizing himself as a runaway slave for his portrait picture. While this book contains little of his life in Canada, he mentions that “in Canada, … I was regarded as a man, and not as a thing” (p. 16.) And later in the book he says: “in Canada, …the British laws recognise no such thing as property in a human being” (p. 195.) Bibb is probably best know as the editor of <em>The Voice of the Fugitive</em> from 1851-1852.
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Documenting the American South
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1849
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Regarding the use of material in Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself: © “This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.”
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English
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893) was a black American who, despite being born free, came to Canada when the U.S. Fugitive Slave Act was implemented in 1850. She was a teacher, abolitionist, and activist. In 1853 she became the first woman in Canada to found a newspaper, the Provincial Freeman. During the American Civil War she was hired to recruit black soldiers to fight in the war. She has been designated a Person of National Historic Significance in Canada.
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Library and Archives Canada
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ca. 1850
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Copyright Expired
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Mikan no. 3191895
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Harriet Tubman
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Harriet Tubman was born a slave in 1820. She escaped as a young woman an made her way to St. Catharine's, Ontario but returned to the United States nineteen times working as a "conductor" on the "Underground Railroad." When the American Civil War started, she returned to the U.S. to work as a nurse and scout for the Union side.
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Unknown
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Library and Archives Canada
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Wilbur H. Siebert, <em>The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom</em>, The Macmillan Company, 1898
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1850s or 1860s
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<a href="http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/anti-slavery/033004-4000-e.html">http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/anti-slavery/033004-4000-e.html</a>
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Map of the “Underground Railroad” Routes to Canada
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The Underground Railroad was the name given to the system of secret routes and stopping points that White and Black abolitionists and fugitive slaves used to get fugitives out of the southern American "slave states" and into the northern "free states" or to Canada. After 1850, the American Fugitive Slave Act made it illegal to knowingly harbour a fugitive slave. White people and free Black people in the United States were required by law to turn in anyone they knew to be an escaped slave. Fugitive slaves could no longer feel safe from recapture and return to slavery, even if they had been living in freedom for a long time. In fact, some Black people who were born into freedom were taken into slavery as a result of this law. So before 1850, fugitives sometimes connected to the Underground Railroad to escape into the northern U.S or Canada. After 1850, it became unsafe for most Black people to remain in the U.S., and there was a mass exodus of Blacks between 1850 and 1865 unto Canada. Many free Blacks travelled openly through the northern U.S., doing research about their travel plans in advance of their departure for the north. Many also travelled in large family groups. But fugitive slaves escaping from the southern U.S. still tended to travel alone and were more often than not young and male.
The Underground Railroad was sometimes used by fugitives to make their escape to the northern U.S. and to Canada. The routes used several modes of transportation, including river boats up the Mississippi River, trains, horse-drawn carts, horseback and foot travel. The stopping points were houses and farms owned by abolitionists and sympathizers where fugitives could rest and get food. These "stations" on the Underground Railroad were secret and often the people running the stations - the "conductors" - only knew about the stations just to the south of themselves, and the stations next along the line to the north.
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Library and Archives Canada
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Wilbur H. Siebert, The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom, The Macmillan Company, 1898. Foldout insert.
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ca. 1850
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English
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AMICUS 4718037
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Quartermaster William Hall First Canadian and First Black to receive the Victoria Cross 1859
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William Hall was born in Horton Bluff, Nova Scotia, the son of former American slaves. He began his naval career on an American trading vessel in 1844 when he was only seventeen years old. In 1852 he joined the British Royal Navy and fought in the Crimean War from 1854 to 1855. He received both British and Turkish medals for his service during this war, but his greatest honour was for his service in India in 1857. In this incident, he fought to defend a British garrison that was under seige by mutineers, and was the only man left defending the garrison when it was finally relieved. Seaman Hall, who was later promoted to Quartermaster and Petty Officer, was awarded the Victoria Cross for Bravery in 1859, making him this first Black person, the first Nova Scotian and the first Canadian sailor to receive this honour.
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Suzanne Duranceau
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Credit Canada Post Corporation
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2010
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Permission on File
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English
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Product #: 403757107
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Richard Pierpoint
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Richard Pierpoint is an example of a man who was captured and enslaved in Africa and transported to the United States where he was a slave before he gained his freedom and made his way to Canada. He fought on the side of the British during the Revolutionary War in Butler's Rangers and thereafter obtained his freedom, and a land grant in the Niagara area of Upper Canada. Despite being over sixty years old at the start of the War of 1812, Pierpoint fought at Queenston Heights as a part of "Captain Runchey's Company of Coloured Men." Black Canadians also fought in both the Upper and Lower Canada Rebellions of 1837 and 1838.
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Unknown
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The Afro News, Vancouver, BC
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Permission Requested
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<a href="http://www.theafronews.ca/2012/11/08/10671/">http://www.theafronews.ca/2012/11/08/10671/</a>
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Layout of a Slave Ship
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This illustration shows the way slave ships were packed with slaves during the Atlantic slave trade. The illustration was used as evidence presented to a select committee of the British House of Commons in 1790-1791. However, it took another seventeen years before the Atlantic slave trade was banned by Britain.
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Reprinted in Martin, Phyllis M. and Patrick O'Meara, eds. <em>Africa.</em> 3rd ed. <span>Bloomington, IN: </span>Indiana University Press and James Currey, 1995.
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Indiana University Press and James Currey
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1790
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Photo courtesy of the Lilly Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana University.
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Public Domain
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ISBN 0253209846 and ISBN 0852552300. Page 119, plate 22.
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John Graves Simcoe Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada
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Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe played a significant role in the passing of a law in Upper Canada in 1793 that was intended to gradually eliminate slavery. While existing slaves would remain slaves, the law disallowed any new slaves from being brought into the colony, and any children born to slaves would become free at age 25.
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Unknown
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Library and Archives Canada
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ca. 1900
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Copyright Expired
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Mikan no. 2837220
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The Memorial and Petition of James Frazer Montreal 1798
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This petition from James Frazer to the Governor of Upper and Lower Canada, Robert Prescott, is a request for assurances that these colonies will not abolish slavery. Frazer was a White United Empire Loyalist who came to Nova Scotia and brought, at some expense to himself, his slaves. He had subsequently moved to Montreal, in Lower Canada, but he only made the decision to move after re-assuring himself that he would be able to keep his slaves in his new home. However, upon establishing himself and his family and slaves in Montreal, he began to hear rumours that Lower Canada might emancipate all the slaves in that colony. He wrote referring to his slaves as "property" but he also tried to convince the Governor that he was a good and just slave-owner who always treated his slaves with the utmost "tenderness." It is clear from his message that he was aware that societal attitudes about slavery were changing.
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James Frazer
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Library and Archives Canada
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March 13, 1798
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Copyright Expired
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English
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Quebec and Lower Canada series, RG 4 A 1, vol. 66, reel C-3011, p. 21153-21154
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The Northwest Territory 1787
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This map shows the new territory created in the United States in 1787 as a "free" territory. Any slave entering the state after 1787 was deemed free, although slaves already residing there remained the property of their owners. Since this territory abutted Upper Canada, across the Detroit River, slaves could cross into the U.S. from Canada to gain their freedom, and many did so.
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Unknown
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Charles Kendall Adams, <em>A History of the United States</em> (Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1909) 189
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1787
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Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman
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Public Domain for Students
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PDF
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English
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<a href="http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/700/794/794.htm">http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/700/794/794.htm</a>