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The True Story of The Forgotten Quaker Settlement and Its Anti-Slavery Legacy in New Brunswick

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Apr 25, 2025
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Pennfield, NB: Canada’s first anti-slavery settlement

It was late autumn, 1783.
A brittle wind blew across Passamaquoddy Bay.
And on the horizon—through mist and salt spray—a new settlement was being born, not of conquest, but of conviction.

These weren’t soldiers or settlers hungry for land.
They were Quakers. Pacifists. Refugees.
Driven not just by the coll…

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