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Titre:
Deux siècles d'esclavage au Québec

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Comment penser que la Nouvelle-France était esclavagiste, alors que le Royaume de France s’affirmait «terre de liberté» et affranchissait tout esclave qui venait s’y réfugier? On s’est plu longtemps à croire que cette situation rendait impensable l’existence d’une telle activité au Canada. Une lecture attentive de la documentation historique dresse néanmoins un autre portrait.

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Canada's forgotten slaves: two hundred years of bondage

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By painstakingly combing through unpublished archival records of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Marcel Trudel gives a human face to the over 4,000 Aboriginal and Black slaves bought, sold and exploited in colonial Canada. He reveals the identities of the slave owners, who ranged from governors, seigneurs, and military officers to bishops, priests, nuns, judges, and merchants. Trudel describes the plight of slaves-the joys and sorrows of their daily existence. Trudel also recounts how some slaves struggled to gain their liberty. He documents Canadian politicians, historians and ecclesiastics who deliberately falsified the record, glorifying their own colonial-era heroes, in order to remove any trace of the thousands of Aboriginal and Black slaves held in bondage for two centuries in Canada.