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Ashburton Treaty (2)
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859) | | Date Published: | 1853-03-24 | | Notes: | The writer discusses the role of Canada in U.S. efforts to capture runaway slaves. Since Canada is a British province, and since there are no slaves on British soil, slaves are not considered fugitives once they cross into Canada. He emphasizes the problems this relationship creates between the two countries. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862) | | Date Published: | 1861-03-02 | | Notes: | The writer relates the story of a fugitive, arrested for murder in Canada, who was freed by a Canadian court on a technicality in the reading of the Ashburton Treaty. |
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