4 janv. 1793 - The Act to Limit Slavery, 1793
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Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe opposed slavery. (Between 1671 and 1833, about 4200 people were enslaved in Canada. Two-thirds were First Nations people, and one third were Black). He passed the 1793 Act to Limit Slavery, which made it illegal to import enslaved people to Upper Canada. It meant that everyone who came to Upper Canada would be free. The word spread, and many Black people from the United States made the long journey North.
Although Simcoe's law made slavery uncommon in Canada, it did not end it completely. That did not happen until Britain banned slavery in 1833.
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