{"product_id":"crossing-the-border-sharon-hepburn-9780252031830","title":"Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow formerly enslaved people found freedom and built community in Ontario\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In 1849, the Reverend William King and fifteen once-enslaved people he had inherited founded the Canadian settlement of Buxton on Ontario land set aside for sale to Blacks. Though initially opposed by some neighboring whites, Buxton grew into a 700-person agricultural community that supported three schools, four churches, a hotel, a lumber mill, and a post office. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sharon A. Roger Hepburn tells the story of the settlers from Buxton's founding of through its first decades of existence. Buxton welcomed Black men, woman, and children from all backgrounds to live in a rural setting that offered benefits of urban life like social contact and collective security. Hepburn's focus on social history takes readers inside the lives of the people who built Buxton and the hundreds of settlers drawn to the community by the chance to shape new lives in a country that had long represented freedom from enslavement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sharon A. Roger Hepburn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252031830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252031830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.47w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2007 pg. 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2008 pg. 60","brand":"Sharon A. Roger Hepburn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44075982618879,"sku":"9780252031830","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d96175af-5df0-4086-a8a5-681a69a75250.jpg?v=1685462526","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crossing-the-border-sharon-hepburn-9780252031830","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}