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

 
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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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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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During the night of April 10, 1734, Montreal burned. Marie-Joseph Angelique, a twenty-nine-year-old slave, was arrested, tried, and found guilty of starting the blaze that consumed forty-six buildings. Suspecting that she had not acted alone and angered that she had maintained her innocence, Angelique's condemners tortured her after the trial. She confessed but named no accomplices. Before Angelique was hanged, she was paraded through the city. Afterward, her corpse was burned. Angelique, who had been born in Portugal, faded into the shadows of Canadian history, vaguely remembered as the alleged arsonist behind an early catastrophic fire. The result of fifteen years of research, "The Hanging of Angelique" vividly tells the story of this strong-willed woman. Afua Cooper draws on extensive trial records that offer, in Angelique's own words, a detailed portrait of her life and a sense of what slavery was like in Canada at the time. Predating other first-person accounts by more than forty years, these records constitute what is arguably the oldest slave narrative in the New World. Cooper sheds new light on the largely misunderstood or ignored history of slavery in Canada. She refutes the myth that Canada was a haven at the end of the Underground Railroad. Cooper also provides a context for Canada in the larger picture of transatlantic slavery while re-creating the tragic life of one woman who refused to accept bondage.

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  • EditoreUniv of Georgia Pr
  • Data di pubblicazione2007
  • ISBN 10 0820329398
  • ISBN 13 9780820329390
  • RilegaturaRilegatura all'americana
  • Numero di pagine349
  • Valutazione libreria
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Descrizione libro Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket, as Published. 1st Edition. Unused pristine first edition bound in dark orange cloth with gilt title on spine. No jacket as published. Story of slavery in Canada is revealed through the narration of the tragic history of Marie-Joseph Angelique, who was tried, convicted, tortured and hanged for setting fire to the principal colonial settlement of Montreal in 1734. Drawn primarily from the court records. 349 pages includes index, notes. Codice articolo 2080138503

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