HIS367H5 Lecture Notes - Black Body, Microaggression Theory, Dionne Brand
Document Summary
There are still problems that stand in our way. Some discussions have brought up like we tend to project racism backwards. A big part of this is how slavery is looked at and not looked at. We are the ends of the underground railroad when the states still had slavery. However, this is a very dishonest way of handling things because there were several thousand slaves in canada and were legal. In 1688, when widows and orphans helped populate the colony, there were still not enough people to colonize the land. The king agreed to black slavery and black slaves started to come into new. France: there were actually also aboriginal canadians that were captured and enslaved. Montreal had the greatest slavery in canada. It never became law but was applied to the government of new france. Slaves were moveable property, livestock and were baptized as.
