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NEGRO BURIAL GROUND - 1830 - Here stood a Baptist church erected in 1830 through
the exertions of a former British soldier. John Oakley, who although white, became
pastor of a predominantly negro congregation. In 1793 Upper Canada had passed
an act forbidding further introduction of slaves and freeing the children of those
in the colony at twenty-five. This was the first legislation of its kind in the
British Empire. A long tradition of tolerance attracted refugee slaves to Niagara,
many of whom lie buried here. |
