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	The history of SLAVERY
		Slavery: (1) Drudgery, toil (2) Submission to a dominating influence (3) the state of a person who is a chattel of another (4) the practice of slaveholding.
		Slavery in Canada did not flourish economically as to slavery in America.
		In sum, slavery began to decline in the opening decades of the nineteenth century because of the combination of factors which made slavery uneconomic in Canada, to which must be added the opposition of the law courts throughout British North America from the third quarter of the eighteenth century.
	www.bccns.com /history_slavery.html (943 words)

	Slavery in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slavery in Canada was first practised by some aboriginal nations, who routinely captured slaves from neighbouring tribes as part of their accepted laws of war.
		Among the European settlements, slavery appeared soon after the colonies were founded in the early 1600s.
		Approximately 1,200 of the African slaves were taken to Nova Scotia, 300 to Quebec (Lower Canada) and 500 to Ontario (Upper Canada).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slavery_in_Canada (352 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Canada is the northernmost country on the North American continent and is bordered by the United States both in the northwest (by the State of Alaska) and in the south (which is the world's longest undefended border).
		Eastern Canada is divided between boreal forest and the barren Canadian Shield in the north and the highly fertile Saint Lawrence River Valley in the south, where most of the country's population is concentrated.
		Canada's two official languages are French and English; French is mostly spoken in Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick and the town of Saint Boniface (Manitoba).
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/places/canada (2381 words)

	Slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slavery in the ancient Mediterranean cultures and the Islamic Caliphate was a mixture of debt-slavery, marriage, slavery as a punishment for crime, and the enslavement of prisoners of war.
		Slavery under European rule began with importation of European indentured labourers, was followed by the enslavement of indigenous peoples in the Caribbean, and eventually was primarily replaced with Africans imported through a large slave trade.
		Slavery in Japan was, for most of its history, indigenous, since the export and import of slaves was restricted by Japan being a group of islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slavery (6316 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Canada
		Canada is a technologically advanced and industrialized nation, self-sufficient in energy due to its large fossil fuel deposits, nuclear energy generation, and hydroelectric power capacity.
		The Canadas were merged into a single colony, the Province of Canada, with the Act of Union (1840) in a doomed attempt to assimilate the French Canadians.
		Canada is known for its vast forests and mountain ranges (including the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and British Columbia) and the animals that reside within them, such as moose, caribou, beavers, polar bears, grizzly bears, and the common loon.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Canada (3942 words)

	physics - Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Canada is a federation of ten provinces and three territories, governed as a parliamentary representative democracy.
		Canada is a technologically advanced and industrialized nation, largely self-sufficient in energy due to its relatively large deposits of fossil fuels, nuclear energy generation, and hydroelectric power capabilities.
		Canada is known for its vast forests and mountain ranges (including the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and British Columbia) and the wild animals that reside within them, such as moose, caribou, beavers, polar bears, and grizzly bears.
	www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Canada (4407 words)

	Landon, The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada
		The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada was one of the forms in which the abolition sentiment of the province of Upper Canada made its contribution to the final settlement of the great issue in the neighboring country.
		It was rare indeed that anything of this kind called for action in Canada, the only case of any importance that arose being that of the Negro, Anderson, whose return to Missouri was sought on a charge of killing his master in 1853.
		There was present in Canada not a little of the feeling of responsibility for the honor of the continent that George Brown voiced and both by peaceful means and by the sword the people of the British-American province to the North had their part in striking off the shackles from the slave in the South.
	www.dinsdoc.com /landon-2.htm (2116 words)

	ONA - History of Slavery in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Slavery in New France in the early 17th century had no legal foundation and it did not grow to the extent it did in the colonies to the south.
		Slavery did continue to exist in New France, however, with slaves being used primarily as domestic servants and field hands for wealthier families.
		While slavery never reached the levels it did in the United States it certainly is a part of Canadian history.
	www.ona.org /news/black_hist/slavery.html (766 words)

	Slavery in Canada
		The first slave transported directly from Africa to Canada was a child brought to Quebec in 1628 by the English invader David Kirke, and sold to a local resident on Kirke's departure in 1629.
		Black slaves lived in the British regions of Canada in the 17th and 18th centuries — 104 were listed in a 1767 census of Nova Scotia —; but their numbers were small until the Loyalist influx after 1783.
		In 1793 Upper Canada became the first territory in the British Empire to legislate the gradual abolition of slavery.
	www.africanaonline.com /slavery_canada.htm (546 words)

	Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Canada
		Canada was the often the main destination of escape.
		Canada, or the Canadas before Confederation, was not based on the development of plantation slave colonies.
		Canada was framed as a confederation in 1867, in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
	www.web.net /sworker/En/SW1999/302.underground.html (2606 words)

	Canada and Slavery
		The Underground Railroad was the name given to the system by which escaped slaves from the South were helped in their flight to the North.
		Not only had they to clear the land that had been given to them, but they were bound to work for the farmers around to get bread for their families to subsist upon, until such time as their own crops grew, and were reaped to turn into ready money.
		Canada as their agent, purchased the land, and settled colored people upon it, which comprised nearly all of the Wilberforce settlement.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAScanada.htm (1253 words)

	slavery
		Collamer, of Vermont, on slavery in the territories.
		Slavery and four years of war; a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part: 1861-1865, by Joseph Warren Keifer.
		Slade, of Vermont, on the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia : delivered in the House of representatives of the U.S. December 20, 1837.
	www.uvm.edu /~kbridges/slavery.html (10683 words)

	Canada - Gurupedia
		The capital of Canada is the city of Ottawa, where the nation's parliament is located, as is the residence of the Governor General, who represents the country's ceremonial head of state,
		A former British colony, Canada is geographically the largest member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
		Canada is a federation under a system of parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy.
	www.gurupedia.com /c/ca/canada.htm (3430 words)

	LE REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Abolishing Slavery In Canada
		While slavery was in effect abolished its function was replaced with indentured servitude for debt.
		Slavery was still legal and enforced in Nova Scotia at this time.
		One of the biggest fears of Black Loyalists was to be kidnapped and sold in the United States or the West Indies by slave traders, who sometimes sailed along the coast of Nova Scotia.
	plawiuk.blogspot.com /2007/03/abolishing-slavery-in-canada.html (1660 words)

	Slavery in Canada bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Slavery in Canada bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon
		In 1793, under the leadership of Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, a bill had been passed by the Legislature of Upper Canada making it illegal to bring a person into the colony to be enslaved.
		Slavery formally ended in the two Canadas in 1834 after the British Parliament passed an act abolishing the institution throughout the Empire.
	www.elexi.de /en/s/sl/slavery_in_canada.html (522 words)

	Sophisticated Slavery - Investing (Canada): 04/13/1998
		One of the by-products of the American Civil War was the abolition of slavery.
		Suppose slavery was not abolished but rather it evolved into a more sophisticated system.
		The essence of slavery is working for the benefit of others than yourself, not by choice (as in supporting your family or giving to charity) but by force.
	formeraboutguides.com /investingcanada/library/weekly/1998/aa041398.htm (1103 words)

	Lauber, Indian Slavery in Colonial Times. Ch. III
		Such lack of notice on the part of the monarch was due to the insignificance of American affairs in general, and to the unimportance of the institution of Indian slavery in particular.
		De Vaudreuil, governor-general of Canada, throughout the first quarter of the eighteenth century was urging the Abnaki to wage war on the Illinois to obtain slaves for him.
		In 1793, slavery was abolished in Upper Canada by act of the Provincial Parliament.
	www.dinsdoc.com /lauber-1-3.htm (10834 words)

	Remembering Slavery in Canada
		Many students in Quebec have no incling of slavery having been a popular practice in Quebec.
		With slavery coming to the New World in the 1400s, a new social system had to be set up in the landmasses colonised by mostly the British and the French.
		Together, write a petition to the government of Lower Canada, explaining why slavery is wrong.
	www.geocities.com /cancer42ca/webquest.html (329 words)

	The Norval Johnson Heritage Library, Niagara Falls, Ontario - Slavery in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There is little written evidence that slavery did exist in Canada.
		Many Europeans came to Canada as indentured slaves, however, when mistreated they, unlike Black slaves, were able to flee and disappear into the community.
		A man by the name of Diamond, built a stone house on the Welland River bank and was said to have amassed some 800 acres of property in his lifetime.
	www.norvaljohnson.com /slavery.htm (209 words)

	Black Canada
		Black abolitionist James Holly saw Canada as "a beacon of hope to the slave, and a rock of terror to the oppressor." By showing what fls could achieve by organizing their own lives, these settlements gave the lie to racist ideas of fl inferiority.
		That they had to be placed in Canada was both a sign of the inventiveness of the leaders and of the desperation of their situation, at a time when even the movement to oppose slavery was often deeply racist against fls themselves.
		The township was one unbroken wilderness when purchased for the colony, and of course their lands must be cleared of the heavy timber before crops could be got in, hence, there was a great deal of destitution and suffering before their harvest could ripen after the land was prepared for the seed.
	www.duke.edu /~mahealey/black_canada.htm (3602 words)

	Slavery Resources and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936 - 1938 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html There are more than 2,3 00 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 fl-and-white photographs of former slaves.
		Anti-slavery Issues in Canada, 1830 - 1870 A Selective Bibliography http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/22/index-e.html This is a 13 page bibliography on materials related to slavery in Canada during the time period 1830 - 1870.
		Black Resistance to Slavery http://www.afro.com/history/slavery/main.html A list of the major revolts and insurrections, women's resistance to slavery, and who they were, where they came from, where they ended up.
	pphsp.uis.edu /slavery.htm (2321 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- Anti-slavery movement in Canada
		This exhibition is based on the collections of anti-slavery related material held at the National Archives of Canada, and the National Library of Canada, and was launched to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada.
		The exhibition is separated into five sections that explore the history of Black life in Canada, and the people involved in the anti-slavery movement.
		The chapters are Early Settlements, Black Communities in Canada, Refugees, The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada and the American Civil War.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=5267 (216 words)

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		~ WAHM Canada is owned and opperated by MNR Creations.
	www.wahmcanada.com (517 words)

	Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In August of 1833, King William IV of Britain agreed to a bill that ended slavery in Canada.
		Some slaves heard from their Owners that Canada was a horrible place.
		Other slaves said that Canada was a free place, but it was cold and hard to farm.
	www.beavton.k12.or.us /greenway/leahy/ugrr/canada.htm (120 words)

	Find in a Library: The refugees from slavery in Canada West Report to the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Find in a Library: The refugees from slavery in Canada West Report to the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission.
		The refugees from slavery in Canada West Report to the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission.
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/ef0eb70cc82e1affa19afeb4da09e526.html (78 words)

	Resources: Slavery in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I am doing an essay on the slavery in Canada from 1760-1840, around those time period.
		If you can e-mail me back about specific resources that I can look at in order to conduct my research.
		AfriGeneas Canada Research Forum is maintained by Forum Administrator with WebBBS 5.12.
	afrigeneas.com /forum-canada/index.cgi?noframes;read=469 (90 words)

	Save the Children Canada
		Canadians have responded so generously by knitting caps; Deliveries to Africa scheduled for April.
		Message of Support for Rewrite the Future Global Campaign to deliver Education for children living in countries affected by armed conflict.
		Save the Children Canada is supported by the Canadian International Development Agency, (CIDA).
	www.savethechildren.ca (140 words)

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