Question
Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s newspaper The Provincial Freeman encouraged readers to emigrate to this country. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country where The Voice of the Fugitive was run by Henry and Mary Bibb, who founded the Refugee Home Society to assist emigrants crossing the border near Windsor.
ANSWER: Canada [accept Dominion of Canada]
[10m] After escaping slavery, Austin Steward founded a settlement named after this abolitionist near London, Ontario. W. E. B. Du Bois taught at an AME-affiliated university in Ohio named after this Clapham Sect reformist.
ANSWER: William Wilberforce [accept Wilberforce University; accept Wilberforce Colony] (The AME is the African Methodist Episcopal Church.)
[10h] Migrating to Canada was appealing because of the 1793 Act Against Slavery passed by this lieutenant governor of Upper Canada. This founder of Toronto was ordered to help the French put down the Haitian Revolution, but left in disgust after two months.
ANSWER: John Graves Simcoe
<American History>
Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 21 | 12.86 | 95% | 14% | 19% |
Data
| Cornell A | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Chicago C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago D | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois | Claremont Colleges | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida | Kentucky | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Minnesota A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Truman State | Penn | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Arizona State | South Carolina | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Texas | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Toronto A | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Georgia Tech | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |