Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Susanna Moodie
Born: December 6, 1803
Died: April 8, 1885 (aged 81)
Bio: Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time.
Known for:
- Roughing it in the Bush (1852)
- Life in the clearings (1853)
- Life in the Backwoods
- Flora Lyndsay (1854)
- George Leatrim