Canada was not a safe haven from slavery | Black Life: Untold Stories

In the late 1700s, there were numerous instances of enslavers putting out notices that called for the capture of escaped enslaved people, or ‘runaways.’
Episode 1 of Black Life: Untold Stories is an unflinching examination of the history of slavery - and it dispels the myth that Canada was a utopia for Black people. #BlackLife #BlackLifeUntoldStories
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The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 ended slavery in the British Empire on 1 August, 1834, which laid a pathway to freeing over 800,000 enslaved Africans and their descendants in parts of the Caribbean, Africa, South America as well as Canada.