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Canada's History looks at Done with Slavery by Frank Mackey and A Fleeting Empire by Andrew D. Nicholls.
"A Fleeting Empire takes a hard look at a subject that usually gets but fleeting attention — the short-lived British takeover of New France from 1629 to 1632. The capture of Quebec by the Kirke brothers, privateers acting for Britain, is generally treated as a colourful footnote in Canadian history. In that event, Samuel de Champlain, the Jesuit missionaries, and most of the French colonists were taken prisoner and shipped to France; three years later, Champlain and company were back in the New World, picking up their lives as if the 1629 fall of Quebec was just a rude interruption."
"His book reveals much about the complex relations between different ethnic and racial communities in Montreal, in other urban centres, and in the countryside of Lower Canada. Mackey aptly demonstrates the convoluted legal demise of slavery in Lower Canada and shows that its practice had stopped decades before its legislative end in 1834."
Also, this month, if you subscribe to Canada's History free e-newsletter, you will be eligible to win The Writings of David Thompson.
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