Resources
Here are some additional resources to further explore Sandwich's Black history.
- The North Was Our Canaan: Exploring Sandwich Town’s Underground Railroad History
- Article about Kimberly Simmons' work on the Underground Railroad and the Detroit River (CBC News)
- Short biography of Henry Bibb (Windsor Public Library article)
- Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself (Documenting the American South page)
- Article about Kimberly Simmons' research on Caroline Quarlls (Windsor Star article)
- Heart & Soul of Sandwich's Black Heritage: Sandwich First Baptist Church (Walkerville Times article)
- About Sandwich First Baptist Church (Windsor Mosaic article)
- 5 Canadian Stations of the Underground Railroad (CBC article for kids)
- Podcast: From Midnight to Windsor, Detroit's Underground Railroad including information about Sandwich First Baptist Church & Caroline Quarlls (The Detroit History Podcast)
- Hidden Cemeteries of Essex County Hold Underground Railroad History (CBC article)
- Underground Railroad Sites Make Ontario Shine (from Vacay.ca )
Reading List
- Bibb, Henry, ed. Voice of the Fugitive. Sandwich, Canada West: 1851-1852, then 1853-1854 as Voice of the Fugitive and Canadian Independent.
- Brode, Patrick. The River and the Land: A History of Windsor, Ontario to 1900. Windsor, Ontario: Biblioasis, 2014.
- Drew, Benjamin. The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, originally printed as A North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee, or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada. Boston: JP Jewett & Co., 1856. Republished Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2008.
- Henry, Natasha. Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2010.
- Howe, Samuel Gridley. Report to the Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864: The Refugees from Slavery in Canada West. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1864.
- Lajeunesse, E.J. The Windsor Border Region: Canada’s Southernmost Frontier, A Collection of Documents. Toronto: University of Toronto Press/The Champlain Society for the Province of Ontario, 1960.
- McClellan, Larry and Kimberly Simmons. To the River: The Remarkable Journey of Caroline Quarlls, A Freedom Seeker on the Underground Railroad. Crete, Illinois: Thorn Creek Press, 2019.
- Miles, Tiya. The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits. New York: The New Press, 2017.
- Morgan, Carl. Birth of a City. Windsor, Ontario: Border Press, 1991.
- Neal, Frederick. The Township of Sandwich (Past and Present). Windsor, Ontario: 1909, reprint edition, Windsor, Ontario: Essex County Historical Association and Windsor Public Library Board, 1979.
- Prince, Bryan. I Came as a Stranger: The Underground Railroad. Toronto: Tundra, 2004.
- Ripley, Peter C., et al., ed. Black Abolitionist Papers, vol. 2, Canada. Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. This volume represents an excellent sample of the papers; a more extensive collection is available to researchers on microfilm.
- Shadd Shreve, Dorothy. The AfriCanadian Church: A Stabilizer. Jordan Station: Paideia Press, 1983.
- Smardz Frost, Karolyn. I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad. Toronto: Dundurn, 2007.
- Smardz Frost, Karolyn, and Veta Tucker, ed. A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderlands. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2015.
- Winks, Robin. The Blacks in Canada: A History, 2nd ed. Montreal and Kingston: McGill/Queen’s Press, 1997.