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This Heritage Minute follows Chloe Cooley, an enslaved Black woman in Upper Canada in 1793. Her acts of resistance in the face of violence led to Canada’s first legislation limiting slavery.
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00:02I don't care what the law is. I will never be a slave. That word, I hate it. It rests
00:11on my tongue like rot.
00:14Peter, how does it feel to get paid for your work?
00:16There are rumors freedom's coming for us all.
00:19Freedom, you know that's all I want.
00:21Chloe, careful. Vroom men would rather sell you across the river to America than let you go free.
00:26Then I'll run.
00:28I've run before. Maybe this time, for good.
00:33No! No!
00:35Just get her into the boat! No!
00:37Chloe, no! No! No! No!
00:39Chloe? Chloe, no!
00:40Let me go!
00:42No! No! No! No!
00:46Chloe!
00:48Word of Chloe Cooley's resistance led to Canada's first legislation limiting slavery.
00:54After 200 years, slavery was abolished in Canada in 1834.
00:59The banget thing that I bought Jace and Eve and Noah lose their Demon and Dodge楽 and's you to affect
00:59this story.
00:59It couldn't make sure that they make a lot of our own a day.
01:00You can see she is a bit lazy or recharge like that itoo.
01:01It's when she eats weird people.
01:01The simple work has committed to living in China.

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