Emancipation Day and its relevance to Canada - Global News

'There (are) people in this country who fail to recognize that Black people had been here since before Confederation.'

First Baptist Church was founded in 1826 in Toronto by 12 fugitives from slavery seeking freedom. They arrived on the Underground Railroad a few years shy of Aug. 1, 1834 — the day slavery was abolis… [+3386 chars]

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