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Colonization is the process whereby an outside group of people take control (with or without permission) of lands, resources and peopleIt is a system of economic, cultural and political expansion used in North American by European countries starting in the 17th centuryIt is an exploitive system that historically has enslaved people of colour forcing them into cruel and inhuman conditions.All of the above

The correct answer is All of the above.

Anti-slavery activistAbolitionistFreedom seekerAll of the above

The correct answer is Abolitionist.

1812183418651867

The correct answer is Aug. 1, 1834. This anniversary of this day is known as Emancipation Day.

4) In the 19th century, people in the United States were divided on the issue of enslavement. While southern states maintained the practice, many northern states like Pennsylvania, had banned it. Those who sought freedom, therefore, escaped northward to these free states and Canada. The journey to freedom was dangerous but they were helped by a network of safe people and places. What was this network called?

Freedom NetworkRoute to AbolutionUnderground RairoadAll of the above

The correct answer is the Underground Railroad. People who courageously worked on this railroad were known as conductors. Safe locations were known as stations.

Josiah Henson (1789-1883)Reverend Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-1866)Harriet Tubman (1822-1913)All of the above

The correct answer is all of the above.

Josiah Henson (1789-1883) escaped to Upper Canada in 1830 where he established the Dawn Black community and became a leader of the Underground Railroad. His 1849 memoir inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Henson’s home is now a museum in Dresden, Ontario.

Reverend Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-1866) was a well known American political figure before joining the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada (founded in 1851). He had escaped to Toronto from the US where he was wanted for his participation in the Underground Railroad. In Canada and England he continued to speak out against anti-Black racism. He wrote the influential Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: his anti-slavery labours in the United States, Canada and England (1853).

Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) was born into slavery but found a way to freedom in 1849 when she escaped alone from a plantation to the free state of Pennsylvania. Tubman escaped to St. Catharines in Upper Canada, a 'terminus' in the underground railroad. From this base, she would return south many times to guide and give instruction to others -- some of which was communicated through coded song lyrics. "The Promised Land" was said to be Upper Canada and the "drinking gourd" the Big Dipper constellation.

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Roots of Emancipation Day