Main entry:

Cooper, Afua.

Title & Author:

The hanging of Angelique : the untold story of Canadian slavery and the burning of old Montréal / Afua Cooper.

Edition:

1st trade pbk. ed.

Publication:

Toronto : Harper Perennial, 2006.

Description:

xviii, 349 p. ; 21 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-339) and index.
Foreword -- Preface -- The torture and hanging of Angélique -- Atlantic origins: the slave woman from Portugal -- The secret of slavery in Canada -- Bourgeois slaveholders: François Poulin de Francheville and Thérèse de Couagne -- Angélique's Montréal -- First fire, first flight -- April's fire -- The aftermath -- The trial -- The verdict -- The appeal and final judgment -- The execution -- Angélique, the arsonist -- Epilogue: a silenced voice heard again.

Summary:

Marie-Joseph Angélique, the slave woman accused of starting the fire, was tried in court and condemned to death. Only under the pressure of "la question extraordinaire" - a hideous torture that shattered the bones in her legs - did she confess to arson. Executed by hanging, Angélique entered Canada's history books as a criminal, but her trial offered the unique chance to tell her life story - one that would otherwise have gone unrecorded and unheard. Afua Cooper -writer, historian, and poet- brings a little-known chapter in Canadian history brilliantly to life with this narrative of a Portuguese-born Black woman who refused to accept her bondage. Cooper challenges the myth of Canada as a haven at the end of the Underground Railroad, revealing a damning centuries-old record of legally and culturally endorsed slavery. Pre-dating other first-person accounts of slavery by more than forty years, Angélique's story is, by all measures, the oldest slave narrative in the New World.

ISBN:

9780006392798
0006392792
9780002005531
0002005530

Subject:

Angelique, Marie-Joseph.
Angélique, Marie-Joseph.
Enslaved persons Québec (Province) Montréal Biography.
Fires Québec (Province) Montréal History 18th century.
Slavery Canada History 18th century.
Black Canadian women Québec (Province) Montréal Biography.
Esclaves Québec (Province) Montréal Biographies.
Incendies Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire 18e siècle.
Esclavage Canada Histoire 18e siècle.
Fires
Slavery
Enslaved persons
Sklaverei
Montréal (Québec) History 18th century.
Montréal (Québec) Biography.
Montréal (Québec) Histoire 18e siècle.
Canada
Québec Montréal
Montréal

Form/genre:

Biographies.
collective biographies.
History
Biographie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 310017
Call No.: BIB 255150
Status: Available