The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal - Cooper, Afua

Clean, tight, unmarked; closed tears to upper front corners of dust jacket; otherwise very minimal wear; On the night of April 10, 1734, Montreal burned. Marie-Joseph Angelique, the slave woman accused of starting the fire, was tried in court and condemned to death. Only under the pressure of la question extraordinaire - a hideous torture that shattered the bones in her legs - did she confess to arson. Executed by hanging, Angelique entered Canada's history books as a criminal, but her trial offered the unique chance to tell her life story - one that would otherwise have gone unrecorded and unheard.
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Hardcover
HarperCollins Canada
2006
Toronto, ON