Time to flee the US?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 4:52 PM +0000 3/25/03, Carl Remick wrote:
>However, this emigrate/don't-emigrate topic is something my wife and 
>I have debated fecklessly for some time.  Our economic ties to this 
>nation have certainly become, ah, attenuated since the downturn 
>began, and our cultural ties to the nation are just about zip at 
>this point.  The US seems just a dreary, stupid, oppressive society 
>determined to become ever more so.
>
>But where would we go?  There is indeed no place to hide with the US 
>running the world.  And who would have us?

American exiles -- from fugitive slaves to Vietnam War resisters -- 
often followed the North Star and ended up in Canada.

"Canada and Slavery": <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAScanada.htm>.

Some documents concerning fugitive slaves in Canada available on-line:

* Rev. William Troy (b. 1827), _Hair-breadth Escapes from Slavery to 
Freedom_ (Manchester: Bremner, 1861): 
<http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/troy/menu.html>.
* Josiah Henson (1789-1883), _The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a 
Slave,  Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself_ (Boston: 
A. D. Phelps, 1849): <http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/henson49/menu.html>.
* Benjamin Drew (1812-1903), _A North-Side View of Slavery, The 
Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, Related by 
Themselves, with an Account of the History and  Condition of the 
Colored Population of Upper Canada_ (Boston: J. P. Jewett and 
Company, 1856): <http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/drew/menu.html>.
* Josiah Henson (1789-1883 ), _Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Father 
Henson's Story of His Own Life (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1858): 
<http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/henson58/menu.html>.
* Josiah Henson (1789-1883), _Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An 
Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's 
"Uncle Tom"), From 1789 to 1876, With a Preface by Mrs. Harriet 
Beecher Stowe, and  an Introductory Note by George Sturge, and S. 
Morley, Esq., M. P._ (London: Christian Age Office, 1876): 
<http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/henson/menu.html>.

See, also, extracts from Daniel G. Hill, "Negroes in Toronto, 
1793-1865," at 
<http://www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/mpages/unit4/u4p74.htm>.

"Vietnam War Resisters in Canada: A Guide to Web Sites": 
<http://www.library.ubc.ca/jones/amcan.html>.
-- 
Yoshie

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