| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 34.1

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Sharon A. Roger Hepburn. Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. 272. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $40.00.

The past few years have seen an outpouring of writing on black Canadian history and black migration studies. Among these texts is Sharon A. Roger Hepburn's Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada. A substantive book with a brief introduction and ten complex chapters, Crossing the Border has four notable features. First, Hepburn squarely takes on the espousal by abolitionists that Canada was a promised land of black freedom and equality as well as the fable touted by Southern slave owners that it was barren, frozen tundra. Second, Hepburn offers a comprehensive profile of the Reverend William King, the founder and primary financier of Buxton, the main community she examines. Third, Crossing the Border explains the inner workings of the Elgin Association and the Buxton Mission, the two rather distinct administrative entities that comprised the Buxton settlement. Finally, Hepburn sustains a narrative throughout her text that emphasizes the experiences of the ordinary people who transformed Buxton from a settlement into a community.

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