Enslavers of the Maritimes - Thompson, Brenda J
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A painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI who enslaved humans, some even after the practice became illegal.The reader will find here the names of many of the most prominent families of Atlantic Canada. Illustrated with images of 'runaway slave' advertisements, letters from the powerful to each other about their dealings in the powerless, and extracts from court hearings when the enslaved tried to bring their owners to account.

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A painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI who enslaved humans, some even after the practice became illegal.The reader will find here the names of many of the most prominent families of Atlantic Canada. Illustrated with images of 'runaway slave' advertisements, letters from the powerful to each other about their dealings in the powerless, and extracts from court hearings when the enslaved tried to bring their owners to account.
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Autorenporträt
Brenda J. Thompson has been a local history buff and writer all her life. Plays, short stories, press releases, protest chants, non fiction, fiction...nothing escapes her pen. An anti-poverty activist by nature, writer by choice, Brenda has won awards for her writing. In 2019, Brenda founded Moose House Publications to provide a platform for writing in and about rural Nova Scotia. As of December, 2023, Moose House has published more than 70 titles, many by first-time authors.Brenda lives in Perotte, Nova Scotia, not too near to Annapolis Royal.