FreeConference.com has partnered with Dundurn Press to showcase Toronto's important role in the lives of thousands of hopeful and brave people who fled slavery seeking freedom before the American Civil War and came to Canada. Their story is magnificently told by Dundurn Press' new edition of Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto.
Slavery was a profitable institution that existed in the lands we now call Canada and the United States of America. Thanks to abolitionists, laws limiting slavery up north were passed, and the provinces of Canada became the primary destination of African Americans trying to escape slavery.
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The Underground Railroad was not a physical railroad. This section offers an explanation of what the Underground Railroad was, where the term originated and highlights one of the most celebrated Underground Railroad “conductors”—Harriet Tubman.
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In 1861, the U.S. Civil War began over the right of each territory to be either a slave state or a free state. African Americans who had moved to Toronto enlisted to fight on the side of the Union army in hopes of ending slavery, as did many African Canadians.
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Tracing pathways taken by people, enslaved and free, who courageously made the trip north in search of liberty, this new edition of The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto offers new biographies, images, and important new information augmented by recent archeological digs.
Based entirely on original research, The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto offers fresh insights into the rich heritage of African Americans who became African Canadians and helped build Toronto as we know the city today.
