ENGL 3630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: New England Planters, Making Money, Thomas Chandler Haliburton
26 Jan 2017
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Imagining community narratives of settlement & white civility. Autobiography of a fugitive negro: : has no claim to make on slavery and race but still feels he is free to make his opinions known, airing on the side of prejudice, not a quiet man regarding his thinking. Born the son of a lawyer, judge, and political figure in windsor, ns: not rags to riches story, he was given his position. Did not work his way up, but gained privileges through his elite class. Descendent of new england planter (paternal) and loyalists (maternal) Planter grandparents arrived in nova scotia with two black slaves listed as property and household hoods. Before he began his career as a satirist, was a lawyer, political, and circuit-judge. In 1820s, published two history books on nova scotia which gave him local repute. International recognition came with the publication of a series of comic sketches, Recollections of nova scotia in the novascotian (a halifax newspaper) in 1853-36.
