History of Slavery in "Canada" (split from JT Popularity thread)

[RangerRay]

That’s actually a good point. We could use the relationship with the crown as a benchmark. Something I’ve overlooked.

It actually occurred before confederation in the east. British Columbia was a self-governing colony at the time before Confederation was a thing.

Chilcotin War - Wikipedia

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All the more puzzling for Canada’s apology.

 

[Kirkhill]

That’s actually a good point. We could use the relationship with the crown as a benchmark. Something I’ve overlooked.

1877 Treaty 7 between The Crown and the Blackfoot.

1871 Treaty between Blackfoot and the Cree after the Battle of the Belly River in Lethbridge between the Cree and Assiniboine after they raided the Blackfoot and were defeated.

Let there be one standard?

 

[Kirkhill]

Some needed context to the current debates

The Rise of the Enlightened Protestant Debating Society

It starts with the killing of non-conforming dissidents in Scotland and France by establishments blessed by the church.


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It ends with people gathering freely to discuss life, the universe and everything, without computers.

 

[Kirkhill]

With the backing of France and The Church the United Kingdom, the protestant champion and the base of the Freemasons, was invaded.



The Acadian Expulsion can be seen as part of that Anglo-French enmity and not simply as a peculiar act visited on peace-loving Canadians.

 

[Kirkhill]

On the gradual removal of slavery from the British empire and the roles of Granville Sharp, John Newton, William Wilberforce, Henry Dundas and John Graves Simcoe. The removal of the state of slavery applied equally to blacks under English and Scottish law and to white coalminers in Scotland.

The general principle was the same. When slavery was found to be illegal the first steps were to declare the children of slaves free and to prevent the importation of new slaves. Existing slaves were bound to their "employer" under their terms of engagement for the duration of their "contract". When they were released by their employer or died then the employer had to contract with free people for their labour.

Lower Canada had about 1000 slaves when Simcoe arrived in 1792 and Upper Canada had 15 black slaves in York. Those slaves continued in servitude until they were released by their masters/employers or they died.

Britain eventually ended the slave trade in the British empire by buying out the "contracts" of every slaveholder. That cost is 20 MUKP or 5% of its GDP in 1833. The payment was undertaken by Whig politician Earl Grey, him of the tea and grandfather of him of the cup. One of the people benefitting was William Gladstone who voted against the bill until being assured that his father would be compensated for the loss of his slaves.











The UK launched the West Africa Squadron in 1808. It aimed to disrupt the trade between West Africa and Latin America earning the enmity of the importers, the African slavers and the Arab traders that all benefited from the trade. Britain continued fighting slavery until the last country renounced slavery in 1981 - Mauritania.

Ghana and the Slave Trade - Tracing Center

When descendants of the DeWolf slave-trading family of Bristol, Rhode Island retrace the triangle trade of their ancestors in our documentary, Traces of the Trade, they visit the European slave forts of Cape Coast Castle and St. George's Castle (Elmina). These sites were chosen because the...

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Link Between Benin Bronzes and Slave Trade Snarls Transfers to Nigeria

What connection exists between the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Benin Bronzes? This is the query that now entangles the seemingly straightforward return of Benin Bronzes to their original home of …

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[Kirkhill]

Some needed context to the current debates

The Rise of the Enlightened Protestant Debating Society

It starts with the killing of non-conforming dissidents in Scotland and France by establishments blessed by the church.




It ends with people gathering freely to discuss life, the universe and everything, without computers.

 

[Kirkhill]

Some needed context to the current debates

The Rise of the Enlightened Protestant Debating Society

It starts with the killing of non-conforming dissidents in Scotland and France by establishments blessed by the church.


View attachment 91475

It ends with people gathering freely to discuss life, the universe and everything, without computers.

The missing attachment.