- In what ways were the Black immigrants accepted or not accepted in Canada?
| Accepted | Not Accepted |
| Canada was a free country and owning a slave was illegal.
A lot of people felt bad and wanted to help out. |
In Canada not everyone agreed and there was still some discrimination.
There was a separate school Mostly the Black immigrants stayed together and had their own community.
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Find a quote/image that confirms any of the above
| Source:
(author, title, year written/published, URL) |
https://archive.org/stream/twelveyearsasla01nortgoog#page/n278/mode/2up/search/canada
Title: Twelve years of slave By: by Northup, Solomon, b Year published : 1968 |
| Quote/Image: | He was liberal to a fault; and his many acts of kindness and transparent goodness of heart rendered him popular in the community, the sentiment of which he unceasingly combated. He was a native to Canada. |
| Interpretation: | A Native to Canada is trying to help a slave. The Native to Canada and the slave are becoming friends through acts of kindness. |
| How might this affect a character or a plot? | Along the path to Canada the slave character will run into a Canadian person and together they help each other out and become good friends. They work together and will eventually become inseparable. |
I think this is a good quote to use but you might need more context to the quote. Thinking about the movie, this might be the part of the story where he meets a White person from Canada who ends up taking a letter for him back home.
But, this Canadian character could be an Irish-Canadian character! Then you can start piecing your story together.
Remember that we learned from that primary source about Windsor that the schools there WEREN’T segregated so Whites and Blacks went to school together.