Turns out canada did have slaves

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EDUCATION
The Canadian Narrative about Slavery Is Wrong
Casting ourselves as the “saviours” of African American fugitives fits neatly into our national identity. But this country, too, was founded on exploitation
BY CHARMAINE NELSON
PUBLISHED JUL. 21, 2017
A fugitive slave ad that appeared in the Quebec Gazette.
An advertisement that appeared in a May 1794 issue of the Quebec Gazette, offering a reward for the capture and return of a slave. / Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québèc
On a Saturday morning in February 1786, an enslaved black man named Joe broke out of a Quebec City prison. Five days later, the sheriff took out a fugitive slave ad in the Quebec Gazette, the newspaper run by Joe’s owner, William Brown. Ubiquitous across the Americas, fugitive slave ads featured detailed descriptions of the runaway’s face, body, clothing, manner of speaking, and even gestures and expressions. They were placed mainly by white slave owners, who offered a reward for the fugitive’s capture and return.
Joe, described as an African-born “Black man” and “the property of Mr William Brown, printer,” was fluent in French and English. He was also different from other enslaved people in the province, who, at the time, were primarily Indigenous. A smaller group—comprising about a third of the enslaved population—was African Canadian, African American, or African Caribbean, some having arrived as “secondary cargo” in the merchant ships filled with hogsheads of rum, sugar, and molasses that traded along the established Atlantic routes. Joe, born in Africa, was a minority within a minority.


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EDUCATION
The Canadian Narrative about Slavery Is Wrong
Casting ourselves as the “saviours” of African American fugitives fits neatly into our national identity. But this country, too, was founded on exploitation

This author must be a big fan of the British empire then, for ending slavery in 1833. I would hope that she would be very positive about them and the British ending slavery is also a big part of our national identity that we should all be proud of. It would be a shame if she would only tell one side of the story, for some horrible social justice goal of making Canadians feel guilty, as that would just be silly. Good on you British Empire!