Black Then: Blacks and Montreal, 1780s-1880s

By Frank Mackey

Book Overview

In the stories of thirty people who lived there and then, author Mackey explores the various fates of people of African descent in Montreal between the 1780s and 1880s. Some were born slaves in a slave culture and stayed there; others were born in freedom, found it, or lost it after struggling with local conventions as well as the law. Mackey makes

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773527362
• ISBN13: 9780773527362
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"