{"id":13070,"date":"2010-07-09T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T04:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=13070"},"modified":"2010-07-09T00:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T04:00:31","slug":"act-against-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/09\/act-against-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Act Against Slavery&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/simcoe_jg1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13072\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/simcoe_jg1.gif\" alt=\"simcoe_jg\" width=\"384\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Lieutenant-Governor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Graves_Simcoe\" target=\"_blank\">John Graves Simcoe<\/a> of Upper Canada, anti-slavery advocate<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On this date in 1793, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Act_Against_Slavery\" target=\"_blank\">Act Against Slavery<\/a> was passed in Upper Canada (present day Ontario), also prohibiting the importation of slaves into Lower Canada (present day Quebec).\u00a0 This was a full fourteen years before the British Empire outlawed the slave trade, forty years before it outlawed slavery altogether, and sixty-nine years before Lincoln&#8217;s Emancipation Proclamation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe of Upper Canada, anti-slavery advocate On this date in 1793, the Act Against Slavery was passed in Upper Canada (present day Ontario), also prohibiting the importation of slaves into Lower Canada (present day Quebec).\u00a0 This was a full fourteen years before the British Empire outlawed the slave trade, forty years before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anniversaries","category-canada"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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