![]() ![]() She also proved to be just as cruel, though we don't know the motive for her cruelty. It is extremely well researched from court transcripts, church and government documents almost 300 years old.Ĭooper spent 15 years researching the narrative about an African slave woman name Marie-Joseph Angélique who came to be a household slave in Ville Marie (The City of Mary) or Montréal.īorn in Portugal to a slave destiny, Angélique made her way to New France, bought by a bourgeois gentleman named François Poulin de Francheville who made his money in the fur trade, iron ore mining and other ventures.Ī household slave also meant she was to be a 'breeder' of more slaves and to service her master.Īfter her master's death his wife Thérèse de Couagne de Francheville proved to be just as wise at business and was able to take over her dead husband's affairs including his chattel slaves that included African and aboriginal slaves called "panis". ![]() The Hanging of Angélique is the oldest slave narrative in North America. The Hanging of Angélique: The untold story of Canadian slavery and the burning of Old Montréal by Afua Cooper, HarperCollins, 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0-00-200553-1 Afua Cooper's thorough research is matched by her amazing writing, which puts the story together in a perfect timeline that keeps the reader wanting to know what happened next. ![]()
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