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Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada. New edition
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| 著者・編者 | Hepburn, Sharon A. Roger, |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | (University of Illinois Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2007 |
| ページ数 | 272 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-41958＞ |
解説
How formerly enslaved people found freedom and built community in Ontario
In 1849, the Reverend William King and fifteen once-enslaved 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 700-person 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 Buxton's 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. Hepburn's 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.