The black executioner: the intercolonial interactions of a Martinican slave in Québec, 1733-1743

This microhistory of an African slave in eighteenth-century New France offers a unique series of angles with which we can examine the motivations, struggles and consequences of slavery in Canada. Mathieu Léveillé worked as a plantation slave in Martinique before arriving in Quebec to serve as the co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harbison, Jane
Other Authors: Nicholas Dew (Internal/Supervisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2011
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104898