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  • Chapter 3 - Departure and Debate: Free Black Emigration to Canada and Mexico

  • Elena K. Abbott
  • Book:
    Beacons of Liberty
    Published online:
    09 April 2021
    Print publication:
    22 April 2021, pp 77-99

  • Summary

    In the early 1830s, the U.S. anti-slavery movement was undergoing a profound radicalization as white anti-slavery proponents like William Lloyd Garrison joined black activists to demand the immediate, uncompensated emancipation of all slaves. This chapter illuminates the influence that two international free-soil havens had on the anti-slavery movement during this decade: Canada and Mexico. Following in the footsteps of newspaper editor Benjamin Lundy, it brings to life the critical debates that unfolded in the anti-slavery press about what meaningful freedom should look like for free African Americans and former slaves – and where they could go to find it.