An analysis of the impact on refugees fleeing from slavery to Canada after the passing of the U.S. Fugitive Slave Act in 1850.

Mary Ann Shadd’s pamphlet A Plea for Emigration; or Notes of Canada West is, as the title promises, a settler guide designed to inform prospective immigrants

This volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different “spaces of freedom” they inhabited. It also provides a gro

Provocative work by distinguished African-American scholar traces the migration north and westward of southern blacks, from the colonial era through the early 2