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"Keeping the Flames of Freedom Alive", Underground Railroad Monument in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Detroit, Michigan is in the background.. The Act Against Slavery of 1793 stated that any enslaved person would become free on arrival in Upper Canada.
The Underground Railroad benefited greatly from the geography of the U.S.–Canada border: Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and most of New York were separated from Canada by water, over which transport was usually easy to arrange and relatively safe.
Lakeshore, Ontario (inset in red) where the John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum are located. The John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum is a 20-acre (81,000 m 2) historical site located in Puce, now Lakeshore, Ontario, about 40 km east of Windsor. Today, many of the original buildings ...
Pages in category "Underground Railroad in Canada" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Map of various Underground Railroad routes. The Fort Erie area became a major terminus for slaves using the Underground Railroad (between 1840 and 1860); many had crossed into Canada from Buffalo, New York. Bertie Hall (which was used for a time in the 20th century as a Doll House Museum) may have been a stopping point on the Underground Railroad.
The museum resides on the Dawn settlement, a community formed by Josiah Henson, a Methodist preacher and runaway slave who escaped to Canada 28 October 1830. [2] Henson arrived in Canada in 1830, although he returned to the United States on a number of occasions, to encourage and facilitate the escape of other slaves to Canada as a conductor for the Underground Railroad. [2]
Some enslaved African-Americans who escaped to Canada used the bridge as part of the Underground Railroad, one of four main routes on the network. [79] [80] Before the Suspension Bridge was completed, fugitives either crossed the raging river on a boat or risked their lives by swimming at calmer points of the river. The Suspension Bridge made ...
It was an abolitionist newspaper that reported on the activities of the Underground Railroad. Mary Ann Shadd, the first Black female publisher and newspaper owner in Canada, and her brother Isaac Shadd founded The Provincial Freeman in 1853. It became a weekly newspaper out of Toronto in 1854, after which it was published in Chatham. [3]