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Enslaved Africans flee what is now known as Canada to free states in the U.S.

1777

CAN
SLA

As Northeastern states abolish slavery, enslaved Africans flee from what is now known as Canada. The same methods that exist in the U.S. of publishing newspaper ads and hiring people to act as hunters of the enslaved will emerge in Canada during these times.