Rev H H Hawkins
Kentucky Slaves in Canada
Cincinnati Commercial
KENTUCKY SLAVES IN CANADA
The Rev H H Hawkins, a colored preacher, now residing in Canada, formerly the slave of Gen Taylor, of Newport, visited this city last week, and while here made some statements that will arrest attention. He states that there are in Canada West four hundred slaves who absconded from their masters living in Kentucky, within a distance of one hundred miles from this city. Hawkins himself ran away from Gen Taylor, but his colored friends here have since purchased his freedom from the heirs of the estate.
There are in Canada, 35,000 fugitive slaves,
who are represented as in a flourishing condition just now, owing to the high
price paid for labor.