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Loading... Canada's Forgotten Slaves: Two Centuries of Bondageby Marcel Trudel
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A ground-breaking study of slavery providing a human face to the over 4,000 Aboriginal and Black slaves who were bought, sold and exploited in colonial Canada. Based on unpublished archival records of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. No library descriptions found. |
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In the early time period, the slaves were mainly Natives who were brought back from the area west of the Mississippi for they would find it difficult to flee for home. Later Blacks were brought in from New England and the Caribbean colonies although in small numbers. Using church and civil records, Trudel debunks the myth that the French did not own slaves. He paid a high personal price for making this point having to leave Quebec and teach in Ontario at the University of Ottawa. ( )