Today is Emancipation Day in Canada

[cathrowan]

When I find myself feeling smug about living in Canada instead of the US, I go read this again and acknowledge the date is less than 200 years ago.

"Black and Indigenous Peoples were once enslaved on the land that is now Canada. August 1 marks the actual day in 1834 that the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into effect across the British Empire."

Emancipation Day