Race on Trial : : Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958 / / Barrington Walker.
While 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-nin...
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Walker, Barrington , author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Race on Trial : Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958 / Barrington Walker. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020] ©2010 1 online resource (276 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Blackness and the Law in Slavery and Freedom -- 2. Nationhood, Mercy, and the Gallows -- 3. Black Patriarchy -- 4. Tales of a 'Peculiarly Horrible Description': Archetypal Rape Narratives -- 5. Race, Sex, and the Power of Dominant Rape Narratives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star While 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Blacks Legal status, laws, etc History Ontario. Blacks Legal status, laws, etc. History Ontario. Blacks Social conditions Ontario. Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale Histoire Ontario. Discrimination in criminal justice administration History Ontario. Discrimination raciale Histoire Ontario Ontario. Noirs Conditions sociales Ontario. Noirs Droit Histoire Ontario. Race discrimination History Ontario. LAW / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110490954 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442667228 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442667228 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442667228.jpg |
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