The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal

The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal

by Afua Cooper
ISBN-10:
0820329401
ISBN-13:
9780820329406
Pub. Date:
04/01/2007
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10:
0820329401
ISBN-13:
9780820329406
Pub. Date:
04/01/2007
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal

The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal

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Overview

During the night of April 10, 1734, Montréal burned. Marie-Joseph Angélique, a twenty-nine-year-old slave, was arrested, tried, and found guilty of starting the blaze that consumed forty-six buildings. Suspecting that she had not acted alone and angered that she had maintained her innocence, Angélique's condemners tortured her after the trial. She confessed but named no accomplices. Before Angélique was hanged, she was paraded through the city. Afterward, her corpse was burned. Angélique, who had been born in Portugal, faded into the shadows of Canadian history, vaguely remembered as the alleged arsonist behind an early catastrophic fire.

The result of fifteen years of research, The Hanging of Angélique vividly tells the story of this strong-willed woman. Afua Cooper draws on extensive trial records that offer, in Angélique's own words, a detailed portrait of her life and a sense of what slavery was like in Canada at the time. Predating other first-person accounts by more than forty years, these records constitute what is arguably the oldest slave narrative in the New World.

Cooper sheds new light on the largely misunderstood or ignored history of slavery in Canada. She refutes the myth that Canada was a haven at the end of the Underground Railroad. Cooper also provides a context for Canada in the larger picture of transatlantic slavery while re-creating the tragic life of one woman who refused to accept bondage.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780820329406
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 04/01/2007
Series: Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 Series , #1
Pages: 360
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

AFUA COOPER is a leading scholar of the African diaspora in Canada. Her many publications include the coauthored collection We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up, which won the Joseph Brant History Prize. She has also curated three exhibits on black Canadian history. Cooper taught history and Canadian studies at the University of Toronto and Caribbean studies at Ryerson University. She is a celebrated dub poet, whose work is available in print and audio. Essence has listed Cooper as one of the twenty-five notable international women who have "put themselves on the line to change the world."

AFUA COOPER is a leading scholar of the African diaspora in Canada. Her many publications include the coauthored collection We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up, which won the Joseph Brant History Prize. She has also curated three exhibits on black Canadian history. Cooper taught history and Canadian studies at the University of Toronto and Caribbean studies at Ryerson University. She is a celebrated dub poet, whose work is available in print and audio. Essence has listed Cooper as one of the twenty-five notable international women who have "put themselves on the line to change the world."

Table of Contents


Preface     i
The Torture and Hanging of Angelique     14
Atlantic Origins: The Slave Woman from Portugal     23
The Secret of Slavery in Canada     68
Bourgeois Slaveholders: Francois Poulin de Francheville and Therese de Couagne     107
Angelique's Montreal     141
First Fire, First Flight     175
April's Fire     189
The Aftermath     200
The Trial     214
The Verdict     252
The Appeal and Final Judgment     261
The Execution     282
Angelique, the Arsonist     286
Epilogue: A Silenced Voice Heard Again     293
Acknowledgements     307
Notes     311
Sources     327
Index     341
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