{"id":84100,"date":"2020-01-18T09:28:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T14:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=84100"},"modified":"2020-01-02T09:29:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T14:29:59","slug":"fugitive-negroes-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/fugitive-negroes-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Louisiana Democrat<\/em> [Alexandria, LA], January 18, 1860<\/p>\n<p>A writer in the Philadelphia Free Press, after personal <em>\u00a0<\/em>inspection of the condition of fugitive slaves in Canada, says:<\/p>\n<p>I have recently returned from a month&#8217;s sojourn in Chatham, and can speak from personal observation. Every one knows that this town, lying on the flats between Lakes Erie and St. Clair, <em>\u00a0<\/em>about fifty miles from Detroit, is the headquarters of the negroes who arrive by the Underground <em>\u00a0<\/em>Railroad. Here some thousands are congregated, in every grade of wretchedness. A more worthless emigration can no where be found. Trained to no self-reliance, able only to perform one branch of industry, they are totally unfit to be thrown on the wide world without a guide, and they suffer all manner of hardships. Ill-fed, ill-clad and ill-housed, they are ready victims to the ague of that district, and disease impairs the little energy originally possessed by these children of a milder clime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana Democrat [Alexandria, LA], January 18, 1860 A writer in the Philadelphia Free Press, after personal \u00a0inspection of the condition of fugitive slaves in Canada, says: I have recently returned from a month&#8217;s sojourn in Chatham, and can speak from personal observation. Every one knows that this town, lying on the flats between Lakes Erie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/old-newspaper-thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}