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Once an escape slave "shook the lion's paw" (reached Canada) were they automatically free? I do understand that a slave owner would have problems recovering any slave that crossed the Jorden River into the land of freedom. I do not believe it was the policy of Canada to return escaped slaves to their owners, but from an international law view were not the escaped slaves not really freed but only that they were not recoverable? Did Canada have some law that granted these escaped slaves their freedom?
By US law these escaped slaves were not freed, so was there any reason that the escaped slaves were "free" other than the Canadian courts would not return them?
A second question: Did escaped slaves automatically become Canadian citizens when they reached Canada?
By US law these escaped slaves were not freed, so was there any reason that the escaped slaves were "free" other than the Canadian courts would not return them?
A second question: Did escaped slaves automatically become Canadian citizens when they reached Canada?
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