Benjamin Drew - the Author

Benjamin Drew - the Author

Benjamin Drew was the author of numerous books including::

•The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada

•Refugees from Slavery: Autobiographies of Fugitive Slaves in Canada

•The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada Related by Themselves, with An Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada

•The Narrative of Fugitive Slaves

•Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts: Its Monument & Gravestones Numbered & Briefly Described & the Inscriptions & Epitaphs Thereon Carefully Copied

•North-Side View of Slavery

In 1881, Benjamin traveled around the world, spending a short time on the way with his son, Edward Bangs Drew, a Mandarin in the Chinese Imperial Customs Service, with headquarters at Tientsin, where he passed his 70th birthday.

He was involved with the underground railroad in Plymouth, Massachusetts.