Race on Trial Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958

Race on Trial Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958

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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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1. Verfasser: Walker, Barrington (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto University of Toronto Press [2020]
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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
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (276 pages)
ISBN:9781442667228
DOI:10.3138/9781442667228

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