I came as a stranger is a powerful history and a valuable guide to sites and communities that commemorate the courage and suffering of a time not so very long ago. Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women and children made the perilous trip from slavery in the United States to freedom in Canada. This book written by Bryan Prince, the great-great-great grandson of those who escaped, made the journey to freedom and carved out new independent lives in freedom, chronicles these events.