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Coggeshall, John M. (2018). Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community. Chapel Hill: UNC Press

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Coggeshall, John M. (2018). Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community. Chapel Hill: UNC Press. An excellent contribution to the historical lives of black Appalachian people that traces enslaved blacks to contemporary times.

The Legacy of Canadian Slavery

The Legacy of Canadian Slavery.(Exert from talk given on August 5, 2028 at Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation in recognition of Emancipation Day) Wilburn Hayden, PhD Professor, School of Social Work, York University August 5, 2018 In 1834, England legally abolished slavery across the British Empire. Until that year slavery existed in all regions that became the provinces of Canada. The Act was passed in the British Parliament on August 28, 1833 with August 1, 1834 being the date in which slavery was abolished. The first section of the Act addressed the compensation to the slavers for the enslaved. Only six of the thirty-one pages addressed the enslaved. Most sections dealt with the financial and structures for implementing the Act. While slavery formally ended, most of the enslaved, “full age of six years or upward” were bound into force apprenticeship until August 1, 1840. There were three classes for the former enslaved: procedural attached (agriculture and manuf