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A special Black History Month episode on how the legislature in Upper Canada (what’s now known as Ontario) came to be the first in the British Empire to ban slavery through legislation because of an abolitionist Lieutenant-Governor, an upstanding black veteran, a crafty Attorney General and a brave woman slave.
By Neil and David White4.5
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A special Black History Month episode on how the legislature in Upper Canada (what’s now known as Ontario) came to be the first in the British Empire to ban slavery through legislation because of an abolitionist Lieutenant-Governor, an upstanding black veteran, a crafty Attorney General and a brave woman slave.