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Highlights
- A painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI who enslaved humans, some even after the practice became illegal.The reader will find here the names of many of the most prominent families of Atlantic Canada.
- Author(s): Brenda J Thompson
- 246 Pages
- Social Science, Slavery
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About the Book
A painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI who enslaved humans.The reader will find here the names of many of the most prominent families of Atlantic Canada.
Book Synopsis
A painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI who enslaved humans, some even after the practice became illegal.The reader will find here the names of many of the most prominent families of Atlantic Canada. Illustrated with images of 'runaway slave' advertisements, letters from the powerful to each other about their dealings in the powerless, and extracts from court hearings when the enslaved tried to bring their owners to account.
Review Quotes
Enslavers of the Maritimes will strike some eyes as a shocking and most unwelcome revelation: that the ranks of colonial Nova Scotians, Islanders, and New Brunswickers included French, British, and Yankee slaveholders and slave-traders, all dead-serious about exploiting their human "property" and super-proud of their status.
George Eliot ClarkeAuthor of Whiteout: how Canada cancels BlacknessFormer Parliamentary Poet LaureateBrenda Thompson calls slavery a terrible stain on our history which must not be repeated. Her Introduction is strong and powerful and is meant to ensure that this blight on our history is never forgotten. This book is must have for all schools and libraries.
Sharon Robart-JohnsonAuthor of Two SamsThis book will be an essential contribution to the Canadian public's understanding of slavery.
Professor Harvey Amani Whitfield, author ofBiographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes