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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.
Chatham had become the center for black activism in Canada, partly due to The Provincial Freeman newspaper. The group was founded following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 , [ 1 ] which made it easier for former slaves living in Free states to be returned to slavery.
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Thomas Hughes (1818–1876) was an Anglican minister and abolitionist from Walsall, Staffordshire, who moved to Dresden in Canada West in 1859 to establish a mission school and mission church [ii] in the newly established Diocese of Huron.
Charles Stuart was born in 1783 in Bermuda, as shown by Canadian census records (countering assertions that he was born in Jamaica). [1] His father was presumably a British army officer posted to the Bermuda Garrison, possibly Lieutenant Hugh Stewart [2] of the detachment of invalid regular soldiers belonging to the Royal Garrison Battalion, which was disbanded in 1784, following the Treaty of ...
Caroline Quarlls (1826–1892) was the first enslaved person to travel through Wisconsin using the Underground Railroad.She reached Canada and freedom in 1842. [1] Multiple abolitionists helped Caroline on her journey to Canada even as pursuers followed continuously.
Alexander Milton Ross (December 13, 1832 – October 27, 1897) was a Canadian botanist, naturalist, physician, abolitionist and anti-vaccination activist.He is best known as an agent for the secret Underground Railroad slave escape network, known in that organization and among slaves as "The Birdman" for his preferred cover story as an ornithologist.
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 ...