Ontario is the only Canadian province that formally recognizes Emancipation Day
, president of the Ontario Black History Society, for the Canadian Encyclopedia. “Still, her plight is a testament to the struggle of enslaved Black persons in Canada and the Atlantic world and the various ways in which they resisted their servitude.”
Cooley’s treatment, and reports of similar incidents, spurred Simcoe to attempt to abolish slavery. He was met with strong opposition from council members who owned slaves, but was able to reach a compromise with anAn unidentified woman and family photographed in the 1800s and preserved in an Archive of Ontario exhibit about enslaved people in Upper Canada.
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