WMST 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Code Noir, New Slaves, John Graves Simcoe

• School: Trent University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 1000Y
• Professor: Funke A

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Challenging popular narratives (cid:858)north star myth(cid:859) canada was the northern star (relation to underground railroad) where slaves ran to escape slavery. 1840 -1860 slaves came from the us to canada, to freedom. *white savior construction the (cid:449)hite people fa(cid:272)ilitated the sla(cid:448)es(cid:859) (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t i(cid:374)to ca(cid:374)ada. Ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374) natio(cid:374)al ide(cid:374)tity = freedo(cid:373) (cid:894)ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374)s should (cid:271)e proud, it (cid:449)as(cid:374)(cid:859)t as (cid:271)ad as the us(cid:895) Slaves were brought to canada, but emancipated earlier. Sla(cid:448)es fought for freedo(cid:373) for ca(cid:374)ada a(cid:374)d i(cid:374) retur(cid:374) pro(cid:373)ised la(cid:374)d a(cid:374)d freedo(cid:373) (cid:894)did(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:449)ork out) Racism practiced specifically to the asian population. Whilst welcoming african slaves, promoted the endatured labors (people who could not settle elsewhere) Used of indigenous slaves (panis) in new france (quebec) Employed them as domestic slaves/ servants while some where used as agricultural laborer. *slavery was different because of the presence of indigenous slaves. Society with slaves slavery exist, but slavery is not the dominant labor.