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The purchase and possession of enslaved people in "New France" is legalized.
Date: 1709
Canada
Slavery
The legality of Black and Indigenous enslavement will be reinforced by the next French king, Louis XV, who will make two proclamations about slavery in the 1720s and one more in 1745.