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An Act to Limit Slavery is passed in Canada.

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Children of all enslaved women can now be freed once they reach the age of 25. This applies to both African and Indigenous enslaved people. Lower Canada (the eastern region near the U.S. border) refuses to end enslavement, although it was ended earlier in the northern and western parts of Canada.