The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada E-Book

Fred Landon

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• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 14

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

In 1851, a group of abolitionists formed the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada, to better co-ordinate efforts with their friends to the south.

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Leseprobe

THE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY OF CANADA

By

Fred Landon

The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada was one of the forms in which the abolition sentiment of the province of Upper Canada made its contribution to the final settlement of the great issue in the neighboring country. Though founded comparatively late in the struggle, it was, after all, rather the union of forces long active than the creation of some new weapon to aid the battle. The men and women who composed its membership were abolitionists long before the society was founded. Its purpose was solely to bring united effort to bear upon the great task and the great responsibility that fell upon Canada when the passing of the Fugitive Slave Bill drove the Negroes from the North into Canada by the hundreds, if not by the thousands. With newcomers arriving every day, destitute, friendless and more or less dazed by the experiences through which they had passed, it was no small task that these Canadian abolitionists had undertaken to care for the fugitives, give them opportunities for education and social advancement and enable them to show by their own efforts that they were capable of becoming useful citizens.