Quotes: “You have a right to your freedom and to every other privilege connected with it and if you cannot secure these in Virginia or Alabama, by all means make your escape without delay to some other locality in God’s wide universe.” Mary Ann Shadd Cary
"Canada is not merely a neighbor of Negroes. Deep in our history of struggle for freedom Canada was the North Star." Martin Luther King Jr., The Massey Lectures 1967
Resources:
Books:
The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada by Daniel G. Hill
Shadd: The Life and Times of Mary Shadd Cary by Jim Bearden and Linda Jean Butler
A Place Called Heaven, The Meaning of Being Black in Canada by Cecil Foster
Leisure Reading:
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Black Bonnet by Louella Bryant
Internet Links:
The Fugitive Slave Act http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1850f...
Taking The Train To Freedom http://www.nps.gov/undergroundrr/content...
Women of the Underground Railroad http://www.ugrr.org/learn/heroines.htm
For a great article on Slavery and New Hampshire, visit Tina Coruth's topic. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/new_...
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