Canada should remember its part in slavery on this Emancipation Day

Canada should remember its part in slavery on this Emancipation Day

  We love our tales about how Canada offered sanctuary to U.S. slaves for decades, but the unabridged version is it sustained African bondage for much longer. For over 200 years, New France and the British North America colonies held Africans in bondage. The first recorded slave sale in New France took place in 1628. […]