CSPAN3 Canadian Border During Reconstruction July 14, 2024
Really a whole set of things together. It is roads, some rails, with people trying to get out of slavery and find ways to be safe. Sometimes that was just in the northern states. Sometimes that was in mexico. And most famously, it was going all the way to canada. A completely different country, being free from the chance they could be recaptured and brought back into slavery. What was that journey like . Where are slaves at this time, and how are they making the journey into canada . In the decades before the civil war, slaves were really everywhere in the United States. We think of them mostl...