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OverviewWhile slavery in Canada was abolished in 1834, discrimination remained. Race on Trial contrasts formal legal equality with pervasive patterns of social, legal, and attitudinal inequality in Ontario by documenting the history of black Ontarians who appeared before the criminal courts from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Barrington WalkerPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9780802096104ISBN 10: 0802096107 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 16 July 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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 Race, Sex, and the Power of Dominant Rape Narratives ConclusionReviews'Walker has written a well-researched, insightful, and compelling study of how race and nation was articulated, contested, and negotiated through Ontario's courts and the trials of Black defendants.' -- Jared G. Toney ‘Walker has written a well-researched, insightful, and compelling study of how race and nation was articulated, contested, and negotiated through Ontario’s courts and the trials of Black defendants.’ -- Jared G. Toney * Labour/Le Travail vol 72:2013 * 'Walker has written a well-researched, insightful, and compelling study of how race and nation was articulated, contested, and negotiated through Ontario's courts and the trials of Black defendants.' -- Jared G. Toney Labour/Le Travail vol 72:2013 Author InformationBarrington Walker is an associate professor in the Department of History at Queen's University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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