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Upon arriving at their destinations, many fugitives were disappointed.

While the British colonies had no slavery after 1834, discrimination was still common.

Many of the new arrivals had great difficulty finding jobs, in part because of mass European immigration at the time, and overt racism was common.

For example, the charter of the city of Saint John, New Brunswick was amended in 1785 specifically to exclude blacks from practicing a trade, selling goods, fishing in the harbour, or becoming freemen ; these provisions stood until 1870.