Canada's History - Canada's History
Develop and defend a position regarding gradual versus immediate emancipation Analyze and learn more about the 1793 Act to Limit Slavery, the law that gradually ended slavery in Upper Canada (now Ontario) Background Information After the British were defeated in the American Revolution, the number of enslaved Africans in British North America increased significantly. To encourage white American settlers to immigrate north, the government passed the Imperial Statute of 1790, which allowed United Empire Loyalists to bring in “ negros [sic], household furniture, utensils of husbandry, or clo...
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