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Second record of an enslaved African person in what is known today as Canada.
Date: 1686
Canada
Slavery
Labor
Named "La Liberté," he appears in census records. The enslavement of Africans is just beginning to grow in "New France" as a strategy to avoid paying wages to European workers.
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