| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations, portrait. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
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Canadian social history series
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Canadian social history series.
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Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
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| Note |
Original version: Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, ©2010. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Using capital case files and the assize records for Kent and Essex counties, areas that had significant black populations because they were termini for the Underground Railroad, Barrington Walker investigates the limits of freedom for Ontario's African Canadians. Through court transcripts, depositions, jail records, Judge's Bench Books, newspapers, and government correspondence, Walker identifies trends in charges and convictions in the Black population. This exploration of the complex and often contradictory web of racial attitudes and the values of white legal elites not only exposes how blackness was articulated in Canadian law but also offers a rare glimpse of black life as experienced in Canada's past."--Publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Blackness and the law in slavery and freedom -- Nationhood, mercy and the gallows -- Black patriarchy -- Tales of a 'peculiarly horrible description' : archetypal rape narratives -- Rape, sex, and the power of dominant rape narratives -- Conclusion. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Black people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Ontario -- History.
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Black people -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Ontario. |
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History. |
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Black people. |
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Ontario -- History.
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration. |
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Black people -- Ontario -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Race discrimination -- Ontario -- History.
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Race discrimination. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Walker, Barrington, 1970- Race on trial 9780802096104 (OCoLC)743395564 |
| ISBN |
9781442660441 (electronic book) |
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1442660449 (electronic book) |
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9781442667228 (electronic book) |
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1442667222 (electronic book) |
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9780802096104 |
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0802096107 |
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9781442671447 |
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1442671440 |
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