Benjamin Drew's ?North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee, or theNarratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada? (1856) is a collection of his interviews with former slaves living in Canada who had escaped fromthe United States, and an invaluable example of the transnationalabolitionist movement's political agenda. These edited oral accountsshow how these runaways turned into African Canadians and reconfigured new meanings of Blackness in Canada, set out the foundations of aBlack Canadian sense of attachment, and eventually helped to reshapeNorth America by contributing to the birth of the Canadiannation-state.
