Juneteenth

I was born in the second-largest country on Planet Earth after Russia. Canada sprawls over 3.8 million sq mi (9.9 million sq km). About 40 United Kingdoms could fit into Canada. Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, and the Atlantic ocean, it boasts coastlines totaling 151,473 mi (243,772 km.) One little girl in a population of about 10 million (nearly four times that now). There was somewhat limited access to the world in some ways—no television or internet, radios and party-line telephones where they existed. Slavery in Canada predated the arrival of Europeans, as some indigenous peoples enslaved prisoners taken in war. History taught that Upper Canada passed the Act Against Slavery in 1793, one of the earliest anti-slavery acts in the world. Lower Canada soon followed suite. History also taught that the Slave Trade Act of 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire. The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 abolished the institution of slavery itself in Canada in 1833, and by decree through the British Empire in 1834. I never recall any annual celebration, however. More tomorrow.

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