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Spazito

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2. You're welcome!

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 1, 2021, 05:27 PM

Aug 2021

Slavery in Canada wasn't taught in school while I was growing up. We did learn all about the Underground Railway and Canada's part in that but, not unlike the real Indigenous history being missing from our education system, the truth about slavery having been practiced in Canada was, for all intents and purposes, non-existent.

We need to know the facts, all the facts instead of only those that put Canada and all other countries in the best light and cover up the shameful parts as well.

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Canadians have a lot to learn about this country's history of slavery, experts say [View all] Spazito Aug 2021 OP

I read the CBC news every day and one of the daily features is "The Black Experience In abqtommy Aug 2021 #1

You're welcome! Spazito Aug 2021 #2

I really get so fed up with this bullshit version of "history". NotANeocon Aug 2021 #3

The only difference between the US and Canada during the slave holding days of both... Spazito Aug 2021 #4

SO name one of those Canadian Plantations" NotANeocon Aug 2021 #6

In Canada, it was farming... Spazito Aug 2021 #9

My argument is also withthe CBC at this point. NotANeocon Aug 2021 #11

You must have missed the part in the article about the beating of the young female... Spazito Aug 2021 #12

This is also anecdotal - NotANeocon Aug 2021 #13

Wow... Spazito Aug 2021 #14

Learnt not a bit about slavery in Canada in French immersion in the 1970s. Indigenous applegrove Aug 2021 #5

I would suspect that was the Beothuk. NotANeocon Aug 2021 #7

No there was film and cannons. I don't know if it was a docudrama. applegrove Aug 2021 #8

Probably a National Film Board film NotANeocon Aug 2021 #10

Something like that. applegrove Aug 2021 #15