The in- vaders overwhelmed the weak defence of the town and took it in the name of the King of England. [...] In the era of British dispensation, from 1760, the year the French capitulated to the British in the Seven Years’ War, to 1834, the year when the abolition of slavery occurred in the British Empire, nearly 100 percent of the enslaved in Canada were Africans. [...] The Code, in sixty articles, covered the life of the enslaved from the womb to the tomb in almost all aspects of life, as well as relationships between owner and enslaved, and the free Black and coloured population. [...] Noting the link between the BNS and slavery banking, historian Pe- ter Hudson declares that, “the history of banking in the Caribbean … dwelled in the shadow of the plantation.” The opening of the branch in Kingston, Jamaica, was the beginning of the internationalization of the BNS, and would eventually lead the way for Canadian banks 22 to dominate banking and finance in the Caribbean, Central Am. [...] The free and the enslaved belonging to the same family and living under the same roof shows the complexities of slavery in the Canadian context.
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