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James Mink was a successful Canadian entrepreneur who built a livery business.
He marries a Caucasian (white) wife and has a beautiful mixed daughter named Mary. Mary's hand in marriage is given to an American businessman, This is supposed to be an excellent arrangement and happy ending for all.
The American Businessman takes-new wife Mary- across the border ...and sells her into slavery.
Then James and Elizabeth Mink go to Virginia to rescue their daughter...
While this is the story depicted in the movie, that is not quite the true, real life story of James Mink. He was born the son of slaves, and given the timeline for the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, he was a slave himself for some years of his life. He was an extremely successful businessman from Toronto, owning multiple businesses, including liveries and hotels. He was even cited as being the wealthiest black man in Toronto, Canada in the 1850's. James married a black woman named Eliza Dennis, not a Caucasian woman as depicted in the movie. There is absolutely no historical proof that James had a daughter named Mary, or that he had any daughter that was sold back into slavery. And his brush with politics that is depicted in the film did not actually happen to him, as far as records show, but his brother, George, was actually the one asked to run for Alderman in 1850. Not trying to take away from the power of this film, just thought I would clear up some of the historical facts.
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