The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal - Brossura

Cooper, Afua

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0820329401 ISBN 13: 9780820329406

Casa editrice: Univ of Georgia Pr, 2007

Riassunto

New light is shed on the largely misunderstood or ignored history of slavery in Canada through this portrait of slave Marie-Joseph Angelique, who in 1734 was arrested, tried, convicted, and executed for starting a fire that destroyed more than forty Montreal buildings. Simultaneous.

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L'autore:

AFUA COOPER is a leading scholar of the African diaspora in Canada. Her many publications include the coauthored collection We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up, which won the Joseph Brant History Prize. She has also curated three exhibits on black Canadian history. Cooper taught history and Canadian studies at the University of Toronto and Caribbean studies at Ryerson University. She is a celebrated dub poet, whose work is available in print and audio. Essence has listed Cooper as one of the twenty-five notable international women who have "put themselves on the line to change the world."

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Book by Cooper Afua

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• Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0820329401
• ISBN 13: 9780820329406
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 349