Benjamin Drew's "North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee, or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada" (1856)

This collection features interviews with former slaves living in Canada who escaped from the United States, serving as an invaluable example of the transnational abolitionist movement's political agenda.

These edited oral accounts demonstrate how these runaways transformed into African Canadians and redefined new meanings of Blackness in Canada. They laid the groundwork for a Black Canadian sense of attachment and ultimately contributed to reshaping North America by aiding in the birth of the Canadian nation-state.