The Hanging Of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal by Afua Cooper

The Hanging Of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal

Afua Cooper

368 pages digital 2006

5 editions

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Writer, historian and poet Afua Cooper tells the astonishing story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large part of Montréal in April 1734 and condemned to die a brutal death. In a powerful retel...

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