Bound for Canaan (110 page)
Authors: Fergus Bordewich
Maps by Nick Springer
All Photographs excluded in electronic edition.
BOUND FOR CANAAN
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Josiah Henson estimated the total number of blacks in Canada at twenty thousand, but his guess was probably high. Among these, Colchester had the largest proportion of blacks, about 30 percent. Blacks were about 23 percent in Malden township, 16 percent in adjoining Amherstburg township, and 11 percent in Amherstburg village, the civilian settlement that grew up outside Fort Malden.
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There was actually a total of about ten thousand white settlers in Kansas at this time.
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The four were the educator and journalist Samuel Gridley Howe, whose wife would write the Civil War anthem, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”; George L. Stearns, a wealthy Massachusetts linseed oil manufacturer who had supplied guns for Kansas; the radical Unitarian minister Thomas Wentworth Higginson, later editor of the
Atlantic Monthly
; and another Unitarian minister, the silver-tongued Theodore Parker. Together with Smith and Sanborn, they would become known as the “Secret Six.”