"As if I had entered a paradise": fugitive slave narratives and cross-border literary history.

From: African American Review | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Kang, Nancy | Copyright information

I then made up my mind that salt and potatoes in Canada, were better than pound-cake and chickens in a state of suspense and anxiety in the United States.--Reverend Alexander Hemsley, Fugitive slave from St. Catherine's, Upper Canada

They thought that I might yet get to Canada, and be free, and suggested a plan by which I might accomplish it; and one way was, to learn to read and write, so that I might write my self a pass ticket, to go just where I pleased, when I was t...

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