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century they came as to a Goshen or land of refuge, until at the outbreak 

 of the late war between the North and South fully 30,000 had been 

 sheltered, and to a great extent educated and prepared, under our 

 municipal and benevolent institutions, for the proper exercise and enjoy- 

 ment of the rights and duties of free men. 



To the end of time Africa will bless Canada for the refuge and home 

 given to her children in that period of their trouble and trial. 



The figures shown are taken from the Lower Canada Gazette of June, 

 1802. The first, of the Pawnee, is used in connection with a French 

 advertisement for a runaway apprentice ; the other from a like notice in 

 English. These cuts had been used formerly in advertisements for 

 slaves. 



REFERENCES. 



" De. L'Esclavage en Canada," papers of the Society Historique de 

 Montreal, by M. J. Viger and Sir L. H. LaFontaine, 1858. 

 " Toronto of Old," by Rev. H. Scadding, D.D. 

 Parkman's " Old Regime in Canada." 

 " Life of Lord Mansfield," by Lord Campbell. 

 " Kent's Commentaries," Vol. 2, 248. 

 " Cobb's Law of Negro Slavery." 

 " Somersett's case." English State Trials, Vol. 20. 

 " The American Slave Code," by Wm. Goodell. 

 " Life of Brant," by W. L. Stone, Vol. 2, App. 16. 

 Knox's Historical Journal. 

 Travels of Duke de Liancourt in N. America, p. 252 



