Benjamin Drew

Benjamin Drew02019;s ;North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee, or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada0201D; (1856) is a collection of his interviews with former slaves living in Canada who had escaped from the United States, and an invaluable example of the transnational abolitionist movement02019;s political agenda. These edited oral accounts show how these runaways turned into African Canadians and reconfigured new meanings of Blackness in Canada, set out the foundations of a Black Canadian sense of attachment, and eventually helped to reshape North America by contributing to the birth of the Canadian nation-state.