"One helping one to uplift all."
"One helping one to uplift all." is The Buxton Settlement Creed and is the theme of the book Elijah Of Buxton is a delightful (and instructional) narrative about the first freeborn child in the Buxton Settlement in western Ontario. When I decided to pick this book up I was anticipating a humorous story of a young boy growing up in Canada. Instead I wound up with a book on par with Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn -- a touch of humor, adventure, history and perspective. As much time as Americans discussing the slavery issue, this is my first exposure to the Promised Land of Canada. Many freed (and escaped) slaves crossed the border in search of a home and freedom from the fear that permeated their lives in the United States. The best of these settlements was in western Ontario. According to information found in the Journal of Negro History 3 (October 1918): 360-67 : "The Buxton, or Elgin Association Settlement, in Kent county, western Ontario, was in many respect...