Main entry:

Mackey, Frank.

Title & Author:

Black then : Blacks and Montreal, 1780s-1880s / Frank Mackey.

Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2004.

Description:

xii, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-222).
Beachcombing : by way of introduction -- 1. The truth about Rose -- 2. Toujours L'Amour -- 3. Mister whisky himself -- 4. If you say so -- 5. Charlotte, she got the ball rolling -- 6. One amazing Amazon -- 7. Charity didn't do it -- 8. The world turned upside down -- 9. The king of France -- 10. Just Julia -- 11. Isaac the impossible -- 12. Cold case -- 13. Home at last -- 14. A whole new light -- 15. Trim the gardener -- 16. Agent of the liberator -- 17. The valentines' day -- 18. Messing with dragons -- 19. Things you've got to wonder about -- 20. Gabriel, be an angel and blow that horn -- 21. Bad news Lewis -- 22. Taking care of Robert -- 23. Philomene's third birthday -- 24. Jericho! -- 25. The centaur -- 26. Trial of the century -- 27. Mr. Wood as a matter of fact -- 28. Cook's place -- 29. Same old song -- 30. The perfect crime -- The end, for now -- Documents -- First petition of the Montreal Slavemasters, 1799 -- Second petition of the Montreal Slavemasters, 1800 -- Circular address, by Paola Brown, 1832 -- Alexander Grant's speech, August 1, 1834 -- The last days of Martha Hyers, 1841 -- Crisis in North America, by Israel Lewis, 1846 -- Some man-stealing incidents, 1794-1855.

Summary:

"A sixteen-year-old slave boy who found freedom in a most unusual way, a teenage prostitute who did not, a business manager of the 1790s, an activist of the 1830s, and a four-year-old boy who became a servant are some of the people we meet in these thirty tales set in Montreal between the last days of slavery there and the early years of Confederation. In Black Then: Blacks and Montreal, 1780s-1880s, Frank Mackey recounts the stories and lives of people who should be neither ignored nor forgotten."--Back cover

ISBN:

0773527354 (acid-free paper)
9780773527355 (acid-free paper)
0773527362 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780773527362 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Black people Québec (Province) Montréal History 19th century.
Black people Québec (Province) Montréal History 18th century.
Black people Québec (Province) Montréal Biography.
Freed persons Québec (Province) Montréal Biography.
Enslaved persons Québec (Province) Montréal Biography.
Black people Québec (Province) Montréal History.
Black Canadians Québec (Province) Montréal History.
Personnes noires Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire.
Personnes noires Québec (Province) Montréal Biographies.
Personnes affranchies Québec (Province) Montréal Biographies.
Personnes noires Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire 19e siècle.
Personnes noires Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire 18e siècle.
Black people
Freed persons
Race relations
Enslaved persons
Schwarze
Geschichte 1780-1880.
Montréal (Québec) Biography.
Montréal (Québec) Race relations History 19th century.
Montréal (Québec) Race relations History 18th century.
Québec Montréal
Montréal
Schwärze

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 310018
Call No.: BIB 255151
Status: Available