This country owes them for what they have done and it is sad that we do not learn about Black history, not even in our high school Canadian history courses do we lean about black people in Canada. ... Another early arrival who came to Canada was a young Black boy who had been captured from his homeland in Madagascar. ... The boy was then given the name Oliver Lejune and he was forced to live as a domestic servant. ... By the 1850's there were about 10,000 Blacks in Canada West or Upper Canada. ... Blacks were striving in the prairies environment and Canadian officials were getting wor...

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To make up for the shortage of labor, the Company sent black slaves to New Amsterdam. ... Before the British took over in 1664, blacks made up 20% of the population. ... By 1776, the only groups that remained segregated were the blacks and the Jews. ... In 1760, the number of houses in NYC was about 2,600. By 1771, about 22,000 people resided in NYC. ...

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Looking closely, one sees that Kipling wrote about India all his life; almost exclusively in his youth, but many years after he returned to England for good, he was still looking back to India and reexamining the Imperial experience (Bauer xii). ... In the hot dry location where they lived, Kim's skin was "burned black as any native. ... By birth Kim is white, an Irish boy, whose father was a soldier in an Irish regiment. ... With his skin 'burned black as any native' he looks and lives like a ...

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