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Slavery and Freedom in a British Colony
PART ONE: THE ATTIC
From: From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge
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Chapter Two covers the history of enslavement in pre-confederation Canada, through the French, British and Portuguese presence in the areas that would become Canada. Topics discusses the lives of enslaved Black and Indigenous peoples in New France, the Underground Railroad, the establishment of all-Black communities in Oro, Wilberforce, Dresden, and Buxton, the first anti-slavery legislation in the British Empire, the Oro Settlement, the Cincinnati riots in 1829 and the Wilberforce Settlement.