The deeply uncomfortable truth is that much of the slavery that took place in Canada was done by First Nations

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Spurred on by the so-called reckonings over racism in the United States and its legacy of slavery, many Canadian activists have attempted to import America’s divisive racial politics into Canada. However, examining slavery in Canada on its own terms and in good faith does not result in an identical discourse.

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A report released Wednesday by the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy — titled, “Slavery in Canada: The Facts Rarely Told” — is a fascinating and grim study into the country’s dark history of trafficking in human beings.

Unsurprisingly, the reality of slavery in Canada greatly differed from the U.S. It was far less akin to the American original sin of mass chattel slavery, and fits more squarely within “Indigenous ways of knowing,” a phrase eagerly