The Black Loyalists : The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870 /

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
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:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race discrimination.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Black people > Legal status, laws, etc.
Black people > Social conditions.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Discrimination raciale > Ontario > Histoire.
Personnes noires > Ontario > Conditions sociales.
Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice penale > Ontario > Histoire.
Noirs > Droit > Ontario > Histoire.
Race discrimination > Ontario > History.
Black people > Ontario > Social conditions.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > Ontario > History.
Black people > Legal status, laws, etc. > Ontario > History.
Ontario.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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, depositions, jail records, Judge's Bench Books, newspapers, and government correspondence, Walker identifies trends in charges and convictions in the Black population. This exploration of the complex and often contradictory web of racial attitudes and the values of white legal elites not only exposes how blackness was articulated in Canadian law but also offers a rare glimpse of black life as experienced in Canada's past."--Publisher
Item Description:Original version: Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Physical Description:1 online resource (438 pages): illustrations, portrait
ISBN:9781442671447

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