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TIL John A Macdonald was a sympathizer to the slavers in the civil war!
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You've sent me on quite a little rabbit hole here... this is probably the best recap that I found on the issue:
"Criticisms of Macdonald generally centre on his policies concerning non-white Canadians. In short, he worked to keep out the Chinese, smashed Métis rebellions and set Canadian First Nations on track to decades of poverty and isolation.
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George Brown, Macdonald’s chief political rival, had a solid anti-slavery track record and urged racial harmony between Toronto’s whites and blacks.
At the same time, though, he also told Torontonians to distrust Jews, Catholics and the Irish. As refugees from the Irish Famine streamed into British North America, Brown wrote that these half-starved migrants were as much of a curse on Canada as “were the locusts to the land of Egypt.”
Sounds like all of Canada was racist and prejudice in 19th century.
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