Born and raised on Prince Edward Island, Earle Lockerby, a resident of Ontario who has written widely on P.E.I. history, provided the following opinion ...
, linking it to the event on Aug. 1, 1834. As part of this, on March 21, 2022 Mr. McNeilly presented his fellow legislators in the assembly with a history of the efforts to abolish slavery throughout the British empire.
The act passed in 1825 in the P.E.I assembly acknowledged that slavery had previously existed in the colony, that there had existed laws permitting such, and that such laws shall “be forthwith repealed, and bondage for ever hereafter abolished in this colony.”
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