Black Then: Blacks and Montreal, 1780-1880's

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2004 - 225 من الصفحات
A sixteen-year-old slave boy who finds freedom in a most unusual way, a teenage prostitute who does not, a business manager of the 1790s, a four-year-old boy placed as a servant, a respected activist of the 1830s, a fugitive Kentucky slave who makes a name for himself as a jockey and horse trainer - these are some of the people we meet in these thirty stories about black life in and around Montreal between the last days of slavery and the early years of Confederation. The black experience in Montreal during these eighty-odd years, a time in which the city grew from a colonial backwater into the metropolis of a new country, has remained largely unknown. These stories begin to fill that gap. Black Then is intended for readers of all ages. Some stories drive home the historical fact of Canadian slavery, a truth still widely ignored, but for the most part, they are tales of how ordinary people managed to cope - or not - with daily life. Based on original research, these engaging stories bring to light a wealth of previously neglected historical information.
 

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The Truth about Rose
3
Toujours LAmour
8
Mister Whisky Himself
15
If You Say So
22
Charlotte She Got the Ball Rolling
25
One Amazing Amazon
33
Charity Didnt Do It
35
The World Turned Upside Down
39
Taking Care of Robert
127
Philomènes Third Party
129
Jericho
135
The Centaur
139
Trial of the Century
148
Mr Wood as a Matter of Fact
151
Cooks Place
158
Same Old Song
167

The King of France
42
Just Julia
46
Isaac the Impossible
48
Cold Case
50
Home at Last
55
A Whole New Light
59
Trim the Gardener
65
Agent of the Liberator
76
The Valentines Day
85
Messing with Dragons
89
Things Youve Got to Wonder About
107
Gabriel Be an Angel and Blow That Horn
112
Bad News Lewis
120
The Perfect Crime
172
The End for Now
180
DOCUMENTS
187
Second petition of the Montreal Slavemasters 18OO
191
Circular address by Paola Brown 1832
194
Alexander Grants Speech August 1 1834
196
The Last Days of Martha Hyers 1841
199
Crisis in North America by Israel Lewis 1846
200
Some ManStealing Incidents 17941855
203
Sources
211
Further Reading
221
Illustration Sources and Permission
223
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Frank Mackey is the author of Steamboat Connections: Montreal to Upper Canada, 1816-1843, and Black Then: Blacks and Montreal, 1780s-1880s.

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