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Refugee

by Benjamin Drew, George E. Clarke

Canada, biographyBlacks, canadaFugitive slaves, united statesSlaves, united states, social conditionsUnited states, biography

<p><em>The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada </em>(1856)—full title A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada—is a collection of over 100 testimonies of escaped slaves by white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew.</p> The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada (1856)—full title A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada—is a collection of over 100 testimonies of escaped slaves by white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew.

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