{"id":225,"date":"2021-05-31T10:10:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T14:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/therefugee\/?post_type=chapter&p=225"},"modified":"2022-02-01T10:26:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:26:50","slug":"henry-johnson","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/therefugee\/chapter\/henry-johnson\/","title":{"raw":"Henry Johnson","rendered":"Henry Johnson"},"content":{"raw":"I have lived in Canada four years\u2014in Buxton one year. I came originally from Pennsylvania.\r\n\r\nThe situation and circumstances of the colored people in Canada are better than in the United States. I have a large family\u2014ten persons\u2014and know. I have bought, paid for, and have a deed of one hundred acres of land. The people here are very prosperous\u2014they came into the woods without means, depending on their own hands; they never begged a meal here,\u2014nor have any goods nor old clothing been distributed. If any were sent, I should want it sent back. In other places, where money and clothes have been given, the tendency is to make men lazy,\u2014that I know, for I saw the bad effects in Amherstburg. I would n't receive any of their help: I did n't want it: I felt 't would do more injury than good.\r\n\r\nWe look upon the steam saw and grist-mill, just finished, as of great benefit to us here.\r\n\r\nI left the States for Canada, for rights, freedom, liberty. I came to Buxton to educate my children. I lived twenty-three years in Massillon, Ohio, and was doing well at draying and carting\u2014wanted for nothing\u2014had money when I wanted it, and provisions plenty. But my children were thrust out of the schools, as were all the colored children\u2014one must<\/i> know how I would feel about it. My daughter was doing well\u2014advancing rapidly. She began to climb up into the higher classes, among the ladies, and the noblemen of the town thought it would n't do. The teacher liked her, but she was thrust out. The teacher called about it, but I could not send her there again: had they altered the law, I would have been too spunky to send her again. We were careful to keep her cleanly, and to dress her nicely and well. Her mother took a great deal of pains with her, because she was going to a ladies' school. I went to see the trustees: they told me the vote was passed\u2014nothing was the matter only she was black. The white children of her class wished her to remain, and voted in the school against the law,\u2014the teacher told me so\u2014but I said I could not send her on account of the law.","rendered":"

I have lived in Canada four years\u2014in Buxton one year. I came originally from Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

The situation and circumstances of the colored people in Canada are better than in the United States. I have a large family\u2014ten persons\u2014and know. I have bought, paid for, and have a deed of one hundred acres of land. The people here are very prosperous\u2014they came into the woods without means, depending on their own hands; they never begged a meal here,\u2014nor have any goods nor old clothing been distributed. If any were sent, I should want it sent back. In other places, where money and clothes have been given, the tendency is to make men lazy,\u2014that I know, for I saw the bad effects in Amherstburg. I would n’t receive any of their help: I did n’t want it: I felt ‘t would do more injury than good.<\/p>\n

We look upon the steam saw and grist-mill, just finished, as of great benefit to us here.<\/p>\n

I left the States for Canada, for rights, freedom, liberty. I came to Buxton to educate my children. I lived twenty-three years in Massillon, Ohio, and was doing well at draying and carting\u2014wanted for nothing\u2014had money when I wanted it, and provisions plenty. But my children were thrust out of the schools, as were all the colored children\u2014one must<\/i> know how I would feel about it. My daughter was doing well\u2014advancing rapidly. She began to climb up into the higher classes, among the ladies, and the noblemen of the town thought it would n’t do. The teacher liked her, but she was thrust out. The teacher called about it, but I could not send her there again: had they altered the law, I would have been too spunky to send her again. We were careful to keep her cleanly, and to dress her nicely and well. Her mother took a great deal of pains with her, because she was going to a ladies’ school. I went to see the trustees: they told me the vote was passed\u2014nothing was the matter only she was black. The white children of her class wished her to remain, and voted in the school against the law,\u2014the teacher told me so\u2014but I said I could not send her on account of the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-225","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":215,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/therefugee\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/therefugee\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/therefugee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/therefugee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/therefugee\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/therefugee\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/225\/revisions\/441"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/therefugee\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/215"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/therefugee\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/225\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/therefugee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/therefugee\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/therefugee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/therefugee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}