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A North-Side View of Slavery.
The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada.
Related bygd Themselves, with an konto of the History and
Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada:
Electronic Edition.
Drew, Benjamin, 1812-1903
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc.
Images scanned by Andrew Smith
Text encoded by Lee Ann Morawski and Natalia Smith
First edition, 2000
ca. 720K
Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
2000.
Source Description:
(title page) 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
Benjamin Drew
xii, 387, [4] p., ill.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED bygd JOHN P. JEWETT AND COMPANY. CLEVELAND,
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LAST CALL
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Day Zero: Travel Day
After a full days volunteering at the amazing Centurion Autumn 100, I hot footed it over to Stanstead and got to the last flight of the day to Glasgow. There I met Anna and Lorna – two of my 8 woman team, at the travel lodge at the airport where we drank wine and talked about nerves. The next morning we were met by Laura and Gary Tompsett – the only male member of the team and our king of navigation and safety processes. What Gary doesn’t know about road crossings isn’t worth knowing. We jumped in the vehicles and headed towards Tyndrum where we would RV with the rest of the team, and it was there, in a coffee shop just off the road about an hour from Tyndrum, that the team came together for the first time over coffee and cake. Our drivers/crew turned up (Davy and Bill) and we almost had a full house. Our video crew would join us later.
So we have me, Lorna Spayne, Anna Brown, Amanda Butler, Kim Hopkinson, Laura Fisher, Gillian McColl, Kirsty Apl