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Done with Slavery
Frank Mackey
其他書名
The Black Fact in Montreal, 1760-1840
出版McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2010
主題History / GeneralHistory / Canada / GeneralHistory / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867)History / Canada / Provincial, Territorial & Local / Quebec (QC)History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Social Science / Black Studies (Global)
ISBN07735357809780773535787
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JLkYCYAcSy8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Did slavery exist in Montreal, and if so what did it look like? Frank Mackey grapples with this question inDone with Slavery, a study of black Montrealers in the eighty years between the British Conquest and the union of Lower and Upper Canada. 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 of black Montrealers and their lived experience. The resulting picture is remarkably complex, showing the variety of occupations held by blacks, the relationships they had with those they served, their encounters with the judicial and political systems, and the racial mingling that came with intermarriage and apprenticeships.Done with Slaverycasts the categories of blackness and slavery in a new light, showing that broad histories of the phenomenon must begin to take into account the specifics of the lives of "marginal" black populations.Done with Slaveryis an invitation to look at a colonial society through the prism of documented black experience, revealing that the roots of the present are neither as wholesome as some would hope nor as bitter as others might suppose.