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Done with slavery : the Black fact in Montreal, 1760-1840 /
"Through close examination of archival and contemporary sources, Mackey uncovers largely unknown aspects of the black transition from slavery to freedom. While he considers the changing legal status of slavery, much of the book provides a detailed and nuanced reconstruction of the circumstances...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Francés |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Studies on the history of Quebec ;
21. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- What slavery?
- There ought to be a law
- Still counting
- Things as they were
- Deer out of a cage
- On steamboats
- Jacks of all trades
- Political colours
- The colour of justice
- Shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm
- One thousand characters in search of an author or two
- Appendix I : Newspaper notices
- Appendix II : Slavery in the judges' eyes
- Appendix III : Spoils of war
- Appendix IV : The King v. Alexander Grant, George Nixon and Moses Powell Wormley.