Over a complete century there is an estimation of over 100,000 fugitive slaves who escaped slavery in the US South and between 1830 and 1860 it is estimated that about 30 to 40,000 of these fugitive slaves escaped and settled in Canada utilizing the Underground Railroad. There is an array of events that provoked the run for the north but one driving force behind the motivation is consistent among them all and that is freedom. History evolving and revolving around the Atlantic Slave Trade and slavery both in the United States and in the British North America paints a grotesque depiction of conditions and treatment. And while there is no shortage of damning evidence of brutal racism to Blacks by Whites, there are bias accounts on African-American
