Done with slavery - The black fact in Montreal, 1760-1840 By Frank Mackey

Done with slavery - The black fact in Montreal, 1760-1840 By Frank MackeyA study of the black experience in Montreal. Did slavery exist in Montreal, and if so what did it look like? Frank Mackey grapples with this question in Done with Slavery, a study of black Montrealers in the eighty years between the British Conquest and the union of Lower and Upper Canada. Through close examination of archival and contemporary sources, Mackey uncovers largely unknown aspects of the black transition from slavery to freedom. While he