HIST 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Algonquin People, Child Slavery

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 202
• Professor: Elsbeth Anne Heaman

Document Summary

This week were going to revisit indigenous and french relations. Torture is one aspect of the problem, slavery is another. Slavery will be the main discussion for this week. Important concepts we are going to play with. Discovering where the st. lawrence goes to. This is a part of the bigger world. The ocean is huge in 1500 and 1600: but in the 1700s oceans get smaller because we have technology that reduces distance. Here you have new france during the period of wendat wars (left: largely based on the st. lawrence. Right: after 1745: look like it owns much of the colony that the french apparently claimed to. Maps of the indigenous people (the allies) Helps you figure out (cid:449)hat"s going on here. The french are moving along here; these are the people they are meeting . This is very approximate, roughly shows the kinds of homelands of people they are negotiating. Complicated mix of people who have alliances.