Canadian Slaves: Slaves and Penney Kome

canadian slaves: According to Kome, Canada's relationship to slavery consisted of the oft-discussed Underground Railway that brought Africans in bondage north to freedom, according to Rabble. But, she ignores the southbound underground railroad during the late 1700s that took many Canadian slaves to Vermont and other Northern U.S. states that had abolished slavery. In a recent rabble.ca story titled Canada's earliest immigration policies made it a safe haven for escaped slaves, Penney Kome ignores the fact that Africans were held in bondage here for 200 years and that the Atlantic provinces had important ties to the Caribbean plantation economies. Even more slaves journeyed to freedom in Michigan and New England after the war of 1812. The first recorded slave sale in New France took place in 1628. For over 200 years, New France and the British North America colonies held Africans in bondage. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.