History 2190A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Police Brutality, Lck, Indian Act
18 Jan 2019
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Lynchings: killing by a mob, especially by hanging, for an alleged offence with or without legal trial. Race and the law in early canada: racialized minorities regulated in a number of ways. Indian act (1876: criminalized many indigenous traditions, provincial laws governing where racial minorities could live, work and go to school. Convict leasing systems: state governments would lease out prisoners to various private businesses brutal work conditions. Chain-gang: groups of convicts forced to do hard labour while chained together. Nine young african americans, falsely accused of raping two white women. Despite improper investigation and unfair trail, convicted and sentenced to death. On appeal, despite new evidence that the rapes never happened, continued convictions. Took seven years for th us supreme court to overturn. Revealed the racism inherent in us justice system. In the usa, this data is extensively collected, not in canada.
