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

Title: The hanging of Angélique : the untold story of Canadian slavery and the burning of old Montréal / Afua Cooper.
Author: Cooper, Afua
Publication: Toronto : HarperCollins, c2006.

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Description

xviii, 349 p.; 20 cm.

Subject

Angélique, -1734
Angélique, Marie-Joseph
1700-1799
Enslaved persons > Montréal > Biography
Fires > Montréal > History > 18th century
Slavery > Canada > History > 18th century
Slave trade > History > 18th century
Black Canadian women > Montréal > Biography
Esclaves > Montréal > Biographies
Incendies > Montréal > Histoire > 18e siècle
Noires > Montréal > Biographies
Esclavage > Canada > Histoire > 18e siècle
Esclaves > Histoire > 18e siècle
Montréal (Québec) > History > 18th century
Montréal (Québec) > Histoire > 18e siècle

Genre/Form

Biographies
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-339) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1. The torture and hanging on Angélique -- 2. Atlantic origins : the slave woman from Portugal -- 3. The secret of slavery in Canada -- 4. Bourgeois slaveholders : François Poulin de Francheville and Théres̀e de Couagne -- 5. Angélique's Montréal -- 6. First fire, first flight -- 7. April's fire -- 8. The aftermath -- 9. The trial -- 10. The verdict -- 11. The appeal and final judgment -- 12. The execution -- 13. Angélique, the arsonist.

ISBN

0002005530
9780002005531

OCLC

61427527
SCSB-10822519

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library