Olivier Le Jeune

Photo: Antoine Taveneaux

The first slave transaction in Canada was over a child. But records suggest Olivier Le Jeune was eventually bought and sold into a better life.

Credits:
African child – (C. Bolten – AV Music – AVCR 749)
Narrator: Karen Robinson

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