Mackey, Frank.

Done with Slavery : The Black Fact in Montreal, 1760-1840. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (615 pages) - Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec Series ; v.21 . - Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 What slavery? -- 2 There ought to be a law -- 3 Still counting -- 4 "Things as they were" -- 5 Deer out of a cage -- 6 On steamboats -- 7 Jacks of all trades -- 8 Political colours -- 9 The colour of justice -- 10 Shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm -- 11 One thousand characters in search of an author or two -- Appendices -- I: Newspaper notices -- A. Slave sales and fugitives -- B. Miscellaneous notices referring to blacks -- C. Three earliest advertisements by blacks -- II: Slavery in the judges' eyes -- III: Spoils of war -- IV: The King v. Alexander Grant, George Nixon and Moses Powell Wormley -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Sources -- Information on illustrations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- SLAVES -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- R -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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Black people-Québec (Province)-Montréal-History.
Slavery-Québec (Province)-Montréal-History.
Black people-Québec (Province)-Montréal-Social conditions.
Montréal (Québec)-Race relations-History.
Montréal (Québec)-History.
Canada-History-1763-1791.
Canada-History-1791-1841.


Electronic books.

F1054.5.M89 -- N3 2010eb

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