My Work on the Underground Railroad
Many years after my family and I arrived in Ontario I made a decision to return south and help slaves escape to freedom. I freed over 100 slaves using the Underground Railroad. Many of these came to Canada and joined the Dawn Settlement. "The immigration from the United States was incessant, and some, I am not unwilling to admit, were brought hither with my knowledge and connivance. I was glad to help such of my old friends as had the spirit to make the attempt to free themselves; and I made more than one trip, about this time, to Maryland and Kentucky, with the expectation, in which I was not disappointed, that some might be enabled to follow in my footsteps. I knew the route pretty well, and had much greater facilities for traveling than when I came out of that Egypt for the first time."