| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada. By Sharon A. Roger Hepburn. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. x, 252 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03183-0.)

In the early 1970s, a focus on families and communities of people in slavery deepened our understanding of African Americans in slavery as creators and sustainers of their own lives. New studies of independent African American communities are similarly transforming our knowledge of African Americans in freedom. Sharon A. Roger Hepburn's study of Buxton, Ontario, is an excellent addition to those studies. Through an exhaustive study of manuscripts, newspapers, census records, deeds, maps, and other materials, Hepburn has re-created, through the lives of individual people, a detailed story of how this remarkable community originated and (unlike almost all the others) survived.

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