Race on trial : black defendants in Ontario's criminal courts, 1858-1958 / Barrington Walker.

By:

Walker, Barrington, 1970- [Author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publication details: Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, (c)2011.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations, portraitContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781442660441
9781442667228
9781442671447

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HV9960 .R334 2011

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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

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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

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.

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