Black Then
Blacks and Montreal, 1780s-1880s
Format:Paperback
Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
Published:23rd Apr '04
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Presents thirty stories about black life in and around Montreal between the last days of slavery and the early years of Confederation. Some stories drive home the historical fact of Canadian slavery. These tales show how ordinary people managed to cope, or not with daily life.Details the black experience in Montreal during these eighty-odd years
"Beautifully researched and masterfully told. Mackey has turned up arresting tales of slavery, liberation, skullduggery, licentiousness, and, thus, of a particularly rich parade of characters, heroes, heroines, and scoundrels (white and black) that prove the abiding presence of blacks in Montreal and the persistent but not indefatigable racism to which they have been subjected. What is unique about Mackey's work is his 'novelization' of more than one hundred years of relatively obscure but absolutely fascinating history." George Elliott Clarke, author of Whylah Falls and Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature
ISBN: 9780773527362
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 310g
216 pages