History Pre-confederation (to 1867)
The Hanging Of Angelique
The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2011
- Category
- Pre-Confederation (to 1867), Colonial Period (1600-1775), Historical
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781443406581
- Publish Date
- Feb 2011
- List Price
- $11.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780006392798
- Publish Date
- Nov 2006
- List Price
- $19.99
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Description
Writer, historian and poet Afua Cooper tells the astonishing story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large part of Montréal in April 1734 and condemned to die a brutal death. In a powerful retelling of Angélique’s story -- now supported by archival illustrations -- Cooper builds on 15 years of research to shed new light on a rebellious Portuguese-born black woman who refused to accept her indentured servitude. At the same time, Cooper completely demolishes the myth of a benign, slave-free Canada, revealing a damning 200-year-old record of legally and culturally endorsed slavery.
About the author
Afua Cooper's doctoral dissertation on Henry Bibb is a pioneering work on the life of the 19th-century abolitionist. She teaches African-Canadian history at the University of Toronto and is co-author of "We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up": Essays in African Canadian Women's History (University of Toronto Press, 1994). In February 2002, Afua curated "A Glimpse of Black Life in Victorian Toronto: 1850-1860" for the City of Toronto Museum Division. An award-winning poet, her fifth book of poetry, Copper Woman and Other Poems, is being published by Natural Heritage in the spring of 2006. Her most recent book is The Hanging Of Angelique: Canada, Slavery and the Burning of Montreal, published by HarperCollins Canada in January 2006.
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