CONNECTIONS BY BLACK INTELLECTUALITY

A STUDY OF THE BLACK DIASPORA IN THE PRESS, BETWEEN USA AND CANADA IN THE 1850’s

Abstract

In the 1850’s, significant emigration of black men and women was recorded towards the United States to Canada (mainly to Ontario). Individuals, families, and leaderships fomented the transnational abolitionist movement. The migration of leaders was motivated by the need to articulate the cause of life in freedom, for the US pro-slavery legislation did not reach them. The emigrants joined and promoted various networks of activists and abolitionist societies that assisted the escape of enslaved and free people, settled them in new lands and maintained transnational relationships to ensure the circulation of information. Therefore, newspapers were created to publish relevant information regarding the diaspore of black population, the international events that took place in both countries, along with books, biographies and