Today is Emancipation Day in Canada
Aug. 1st, 2022 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cathrowanWhen 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
"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
