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  2. Slavery in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The ratifying of the Slavery Convention by Canada in 1953 began the country's international commitments to address modern slavery. [58] Human trafficking in Canada is a legal and political issue, and Canadian legislators have been criticized for having failed to deal with the problem in a more systematic way. [ 59 ]

  3. Act Against Slavery - Wikipedia

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    The first two pages of the Act Against Slavery, taken from the statute volume. The Act Against Slavery was an anti-slavery law passed on July 9, 1793, in the second legislative session of Upper Canada, the colonial division of British North America that would eventually become Ontario. [1]

  4. History of Canada (1763–1867) - Wikipedia

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    Starting with the 1763 Treaty of Paris, New France, of which the colony of Canada was a part, formally became a part of the British Empire.The Royal Proclamation of 1763 enlarged the colony of Canada under the name of the Province of Quebec, which with the Constitutional Act 1791 became known as the Canadas.

  5. African Americans in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The Underground Railroad was a secret network that helped African Americans escape from slavery in the South to free states in the north and to Canada. [4] Harriet Tubman helped enslaved Black people escape to Canada. [5] Around some 1,500 African Americans migrated to the Plains region of Canada in the years between 1905 and 1912.

  6. Racial segregation in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Unlike in the United States, racial segregation in Canada applied to all non-whites and was historically enforced through laws, court decisions and social norms with a closed immigration system that barred virtually all non-whites from immigrating until 1962. Section 38 of the 1910 Immigration Act permitted the government to prohibit the entry ...

  7. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    This case was generally taken at the time to have decided that the condition of slavery did not exist under English law in England and Wales. [66] 1773 Portugal: A new decree by the Marquis of Pombal, signed by the king Dom José, emancipates fourth-generation slaves [58] and every child born to an enslaved mother after the decree was published ...

  8. Constitutional history of Canada - Wikipedia

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    A Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Civil Government of Canada was appointed on May 2, 1828 "to enquire into the state of the civil government of Canada, as established by the Act 31 Geo. III., chap. 31, and to report their observations and opinions thereupon to the house." It reported on July 22 of the same year.

  9. Compensated emancipation - Wikipedia

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    Compensated emancipation was a method of ending slavery, under which the enslaved person's owner received compensation from the government in exchange for manumitting the slave. This could be monetary, and it could allow the owner to retain the slave for a period of labor as an indentured servant . [ 1 ]