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Accession number: 
1987.0003

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Production Years: 
1987

Languages:

  • English
Film Properties: 
  • Colour
  • Sound
Length (minutes): 
28

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York University, Toronto, Ontario: 16mm, VHS.
"Uses the annual Labour Day homecoming to explore Buxton's role as a major Canadian destination for Blacks fleeing slavery in the American South on the Underground Railroad."

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University of Waterloo Audiovisual Services Catalog.
"Throughout the years of slavery many blacks emigrated to Canada and settled in Essex County. After Emancipation many stayed to continue the life they had started here. This film documents the reunion of some of these families and their memories of early Canada."