The Slave In Canada Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Slave in Canada When engaged in a certain historical inquiry, I found occasion to examine the magnificent collection of the Cana dian Archives at Ottawa, a collection which ought not to be left unexamined by anyone writing on Canada. In that inquiry I discovered the proceedings in the case of Chloe Cooley set out in Chapter V of the text. This induced me to make further researches on the subject of Slavery in Upper Canada. The result was incorporated in a paper, The Slave in Upper Canada, read before the Royal Society of Canada in May 1919, and subsequently published in the journal OF negro history for October, 1919. Some of the Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada and the editor of the journal OF negro history have asked me to ex pand the paper. The present work is the result. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Slave in Upper Canada Whipple made enquiry. Public opinion in Portsmouth was adverse to the return of the fugitive. She was unmolested and lived out a long life in Portsmouth and Kittery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Lands of the Slave and the Free: Or Cuba, the United States, and Canada I will only further remark that in some of my observations upon the United States, such as travelling and tables-d'hote, the reader must bear in mind that in a land of so-called equality, whenever that principle is carried out, no compari son ean be drawn accurately between similar subjects in the Republic and in England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Life of Josiah Henson: Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada After this brief period of comparative comfort, however, the death of Dr. Mcp. Brought about a revolution in our condition, which, common as such things are in slave countries, can never be imagined by those not subject to them, nor recol lected by those who have been, without emotions of grief and indignation deep and inefiaceable. The doctor was riding from one of his scenes of riotous excess, when, falling from his horse, in crossing a little run, not a foot deep, he was una ble to save himself from drowning. In consequence of his decease, it became neces sary to sell the estate and the slaves, in order to divide the property among the heirs; and we wereall put up at auction and sold to the highest bidder, and scattered over various parts of the country. My brothers and sisters were bid off one by one, while my mother, holding my hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Refugees From Slavery in Canada West: Report to the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission Nothing in this Act affected the status of any negro slave born previous to the date of it. On the contrary, the 2d section provides that nothing in it shall disturb existing relations. The legislation was prospective merely; and there has been none subsequently. There fore a slave born before July 1, 1798, would have been legally a slave until the general abolition of slavery in all the British colonies by act of Parliament in 1833. Thus slavery had a legal existence in Canada many years after it had been abolished in several States of the United States. Massachusetts abolished it by her Bill of Rights in i780; New Hampshire in 1792; New York in 1799 New Jersey in 1820; and it was virtually abolished in the other Northern States before 1880. But though the Canadian Parliament, with the usual veneration of legislators for things hallowed by age, merely scotched slavery, public Opinion (and the cold) would not let it drag out its legal life, but killed it before the beginning of this century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Lands of the Slave and the Free, or Cuba, the United States, and Canada, Vol. 1 One makes an excuse for tediousness; a second makes an apology for delay; a third makes his en deavours plead for favourable reception, &0. Then again you have the interrogator, wherein a reader is found before the work is printed, convenient ques tions are put into his mouth, and ready replies are given, to which no rejoinder is permitted. This is very astute practice. - Then again there is the puffer and condenser, wherein, if matter be wanting in the work, a prefacial waggon is put before the chapters] pony, the former acting the part Of pemican, or concentrated essence, the latter representing the liquid necessary for cooking it; the whole forming a potage an lecteur, known among professional men as soldier's broth.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.