Sale of Slaves. This advertisement in the Halifax Gazette shows that Halifax took part in the Atlantic coastal slave trade. The slaves for sale had just been imported from the West Indies by merchant Joshua Mauger, 30 May 1752. read more
But in the colonies that became Canada had few slaves at any point. There was some slavery among the first nations. During the American Revolution, Britain gave freedom to any slaves in the 13 colonies that aided the British cause. read more
Because early Canada's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade was so minor, the history of slavery in Canada is often overshadowed by the more tumultuous slavery practised elsewhere in the Americas, particularly in the southern United States and colonial Caribbean. read more
Canada is further connected to the Transatlantic Slave Trade through the trading of products like timber and salted cod with slaveholding Caribbean colonies for slave produced goods such as rum, molasses, tobacco, and sugar. read more