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Portrait of Ann de Cou Odell

Gold locket with a painting of a woman with brown hair wearing a blue dress.

Courtesy of New Brunswick Museum, John Clarence Webster Canadiana Collection, W1296, c.1780.

Although by 1822 there were reportedly no slaves in New Brunswick, servitude certainly continued in the form of indentured service. Many within Fredericton’s social elite maintained a strict racial divide.