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A review by chublaikhan
The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal by Afua Cooper
3.0
“Angelique’s interrogations and confession form a startling narration of “unsilencing the past” one that “re-tongues” the mouths of Black women and Black people and allows them to shout their narratives of resistance to the high heavens”
This book is a big piece of historical research so it isn’t an easy read, but a fascinating story nonetheless. Important to acknowledge that despite all of Canada’s protests that, “we are not as bad as the states” we still partook in slavery and much of early Canadian society was built with the aid of slaves.
This book is a big piece of historical research so it isn’t an easy read, but a fascinating story nonetheless. Important to acknowledge that despite all of Canada’s protests that, “we are not as bad as the states” we still partook in slavery and much of early Canadian society was built with the aid of slaves.