Slave ownership in
Upper & Lower Canada (mar 10, 1791 – jan 10, 1841)
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"English-speaking Upper Canada, which existed from 1791 to 1841 (in present-day Southern Ontario), was also a slave-holding colon. In fact, 'the best people in the capital [of Upper Canada] owned Negroes' (Riddell 1920: 67). The creation of French-speaking Lower Canada, a small part of the former colony of New France and territorial precursor to present-day Quebec, carried forward the French authorization of slavery, which was practised for fifty years."
Robyn Maynard. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017). Pg. 24
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