@article{441, keywords = {Census records}, author = {Linda Brown-Kubisch}, title = {Fugitive slaves and free Americans in Canada West before 1860}, abstract = {A discussion of research sources used in the author's thesis about black settlement and experience in the Queen's Bush. Most fugitive slaves were illiterate, and their settlement is marked only by several abandoned cemeteries in Peel Township. But the author found evidence in land deeds and wills; records of births, deaths and marriages; census data; petitions; and the letters and reports of agents of the American Missionary Association and related groups.}, year = {1996}, journal = {Families}, number = {Journal Article}, }