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Historian Robin Winks writes it is "the sharpest attack to come from a Canadian pen even into the 1840s; he had also brought about a public debate which soon reached the courts". [43] (Abolitionist lawyer Benjamin Kent was buried in Halifax in 1788.) In 1790 John Burbidge freed his slaves.
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The Chatham Vigilance Committee was formulated before the American Civil War by black abolitionists in the Chatham, Ontario area to save people from being sold into slavery. Some of the members of the group were graduates of Oberlin College in Ohio. [ 1 ]
Richard John Uniacke Richard John Uniacke by Robert Field Born (1753-11-22) November 22, 1753 Castletown, Kingdom of Ireland Died October 11, 1830 (1830-10-11) (aged 76) Mount Uniacke, Nova Scotia Richard John Uniacke (November 22, 1753 – October 11, 1830) was an abolitionist, lawyer, politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly and Attorney General of Nova Scotia. According to ...
Richard Preston, Nova Scotia Archives. Richard Preston, (c. 1791 – 16 July 1861), was a religious leader and abolitionist. He escaped slavery in Virginia to become an important leader for the African Nova Scotian community and in the international struggle against slavery.
Abraham Doras Shadd, abolitionist and father to Mary Ann Shadd. Abraham Doras Shadd (March 2, 1801 – February 11, 1882) was an African-American abolitionist and civil rights activist who emigrated to Ontario, Canada, and became one of Canada's first black elected officials.
In 1849, Henson published an autobiography of his life, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself, garnering attention from abolitionists. [5] The autobiography later served as the inspiration for the titular character in Harriet Beecher Stowe anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin .
Samuel Bass (1807–1853) was a white Canadian abolitionist who helped Solomon Northup, author of Twelve Years a Slave, attain his freedom.Northup was a free black man from New York who was kidnapped and forced into slavery in the Deep South.