at St. Catharines, says: "Arrivals from slavery are frequent."
[21] _The Voice of the Fugitive_, July 29, 1852.
[22] _Ibid._, July 1, 1852.
[23] _St. Catharine's Journal_, quoted in _The Voice of the Fugitive_,
September 23, 1852.
[24] Quoted in _The Liberator_, September 12, 1851.
[25] _Liberator_, February 14, 1851.
[26] _The Voice of the Fugitive_, August 27, 1851.
[27] Quoted in American Anti-slavery Society, Twenty-seventh Report,
1861.
[28] American Anti-slavery Society, Twenty-seventh Annual Report,
1861, pp. 48-49.
[29] P. 157.
[30] Rhodes, _History of the United States_, I, 210.
[31] _Ibid._, I, 224-25. See also Ward, _Autobiography of a Fugitive
Negro_, p. 127.
[32] _Ibid._, I, 222-23. See also _The Voice of the Fugitive_, June 3
and July 1, 1852.
[33] Schauler, _History of the United States_, V, 290-291.
[34] Troy, _Hairbreadth Escapes_, pp. 39-43.
[35] _Liberator_, June 11, 1852. See also _The Voice of the Fugitive_,
June 17, 1852.
[36] _Ibid._, July 30, 1852.
[37] _Liberator_, Sept. 12, 1851; _The Voice of the Fugitive_, Sept.
24, 1851; Anti-slavery Tracts, New Series, No. 15, p. 19.
[38] Sandusky _Commercial Register_, Oct. 21, 1852; _Liberator_, Oct.
29, 1852; Anti-slavery Tracts, New Series, No. 15, p. 24.
[39] _The Voice of the Fugitive_, February 12, 1851.
[40] Ninth Annual Report, N. Y., 1855, p. 47
[41] American Anti-slavery Society, Eleventh Annual Report, 1851, p.
100.
[42] _The Voice of the Fugitive_ of January 15, 1851, and November 18,
1852.
[43] _Ibid._, January 1 and May 20, 1852.
[44] Troy, _Hair-breadth Escapes_, pp. 108 and 122.
[45] "The Canadian government reckoned that there had been not less
than 40,000 Canadian enlistments in the American Army during the Civil
War."--Goldwin Smith's _Correspondence_ (letter to Moberly Bell), p.
377.
RICHARD HILL[1]
Richard Hill, one of Jamaica's most famous sons, was born at Montego
Bay on the first of May, 1795. In 1779 his father, also named Richard,
came to Jamaica from Lincolnshire, where the family had lived for
several centuries, and along with a brother settled at Montego Bay.
There he became a substantial merchant, and on his death in 1818 left
his property in Jamaica to his son and two daughters, Ann and Jane.
Hill's mother, who had East Indian as well as Negro blood in her
veins, survived her husband many years, her son being constant in his
attention to her up to the la
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