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Slavery in Canada includes both slavery as practiced by First Nations in land that now comprises Canada before European colonization, as well as slavery under European colonization, the latter of which legally existed into the 1830s. However that was not the end of human bondage in Canada as forms of slavery, human trafficking in particular, still occur today within its borders. Some slaves were of African descent, but most were aboriginal (typically called ''panis'', likely a corruption of Pawnee). Slavery within Canada's current geography was practised primarily by Aboriginal groups. While there was never any significant Canadian trade in African slaves, native nations frequently enslaved their rivals and a very modest number (sometimes none in a number of years) were purchased by colonial administrators (rarely by settlers) until 1833, when the British Parliament abolished slavery across the British Empire.(There is often confusion over the date at which this occurred; Britain had abolished the slave trade in 1807, but did not abolish slavery itself until 1833, in an Act that did not begin to take effect until the following year.) A small number of African slaves were forcibly brought as chattel by Europeans to New France, Acadia and the later British North America (see chattel slavery) during the 17th century. Those in Canada came from the American colonies, as no shiploads of human chattel came to Canada directly from Africa. The number of slaves in New France is believed to be in the hundreds.〔 They were house servants and farm workers. There were no large-scale plantations in Canada, and therefore no large-scale plantation slave work forces of the sort that existed in most European colonies in the southerly Americas, from Virginia to the West Indies to Brazil. Because early Canada's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade was so minor, the history of slavery in Canada is often overshadowed by the more tumultuous slavery practised elsewhere in the Americas - most infamously in the American South and the colonial Caribbean. Afua Cooper states that slavery is "Canada's best kept secret, locked within the National closet."〔AfuaCooper, ''The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal,''(Toronto:HarperPerennial, 2006)'〕 ==Under indigenous rule== Slave-owning people of what became Canada were, for example, the fishing societies, such as the Yurok, that lived along the Pacific coast from Alaska to California. Many of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, such as the Haida and Tlingit, were traditionally known as fierce warriors and slave-traders, raiding as far as California. Slavery was hereditary, the slaves being prisoners of war and their descendants were slaves.〔Kenneth M. Ames, "Slaves, Chiefs and Labour on the Northern Northwest Coast," ''World Archaeology,'' Vol. 33, No. 1, The Archaeology of Slavery (Jun., 2001), pp. 1-17 (in JSTOR )〕 Some tribes in British Columbia continued to segregate and ostracize the descendants of slaves as late as the 1970s.〔Donald, Leland (1997). Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, University of California Press, pp. 249-251〕 Among some Pacific Northwest tribes about a quarter of the population were slaves.〔(Digital History African American Voices ) 〕〔(Haida Warfare ) 〕 One slave narrative was composed by an Englishman, John R. Jewitt, who had been taken alive when his ship was captured in 1802; his memoir provides a detailed look at life as a slave, and asserts that a large number were held. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Slavery in Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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