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Book Review: The Slave Catcher by Stanley W. Campbell

Book Review

This following information was partially derived from Stanley W. Campbell's The Slave Catchers. The originality of Campbell's contribution is in his discovery of additional facts about Minkins's life before and during his sojourn in Boston, and after his arrival in Montreal. Campbell's enthusiasm for his work is infectious, as he describes the moment of his discovery of Minkins's name on the microfilm of the manuscript of the Canadian census of 1861. "I was uncovering an African-American equivalent of a lost tribe of Israel. But where was Shadrack Minkins. Then a ...