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Race on trial : black defendants in Ontario's criminal courts, 1858-1958 /

Using capital case files and the assize records for Kent and Essex counties, areas that had significant black populations because they were termini for the Underground Railroad, Barrington Walker investigates the limits of freedom for Ontario's African Canadians. Through court transcripts, depo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Walker, Barrington, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2011]
Series:Canadian social history series.
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Blackness and the law in slavery and freedom
  • Nationhood, mercy and the gallows
  • Black patriarchy
  • Tales of a 'peculiarly horrible description' : archetypal rape narratives
  • Rape, sex, and the power of dominant rape narratives
  • Conclusion.