UN Wants Canada To Apologize, Pay Reparations For Black Slavery

This is nuts...

During the American Revolution, Loyalists brought their slaves with them from the US colonies...

The British announced that any slaves who fought with the Loyalists were given their freedom...the slaves did receive their freedom and settled in Canada along with their former “masters”...they had land,, farmed etc and had somewhat equal opportunities...

There were many black Loyalists...

The Underground Railroad ended at a church in Niagara aided by former black slaves and descendants of those slaves...

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Yes, before the Civil War runaway slaves were not safe until they got to Canada--if residing in the "free states" in the North there was always a danger (especially after 1850) that they would be found and returned to slavery.

But there were cases in the very early 1800s when slaves in Upper Canada (Ontario) escaped to the US because slavery had been forbidden in the Northwest Territory.

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