Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada,Used

Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada,Used

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How formerly enslaved people found freedom and built community in OntarioIn 1849, the Reverend William King and fifteen onceenslaved people he had inherited founded the Canadian settlement of Buxton on Ontario land set aside for sale to Blacks. Though initially opposed by some neighboring whites, Buxton grew into a 700person agricultural community that supported three schools, four churches, a hotel, a lumber mill, and a post office.Sharon A. Roger Hepburn tells the story of the settlers from Buxtons founding of through its first decades of existence. Buxton welcomed Black men, woman, and children from all backgrounds to live in a rural setting that offered benefits of urban life like social contact and collective security. Hepburns focus on social history takes readers inside the lives of the people who built Buxton and the hundreds of settlers drawn to the community by the chance to shape new lives in a country that had long represented freedom from enslavement.

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