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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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Auteur principal: Walker, Barrington, 1970-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2011]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.