Enslavers of the Maritimes
From Brenda J. Thompson, the author of A Wholesome Horror and Finding Fortune, a painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI, many of them members of the region’s most prominent families, who enslaved humans.
Read Suzanne Rent's interview with Brenda in The Halifax Examiner.
Book details
6x9 paperback, 246 pages
Many illustrations
ISBN 978-1-998149-26-1
Reviews
This book will be an essential contribution to the Canadian public’s understanding of slavery.
Professor Harvey Amani Whitfield
author of Biographical Dictionary of
Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes
Enslavers of the Maritimes will strike some eyes as a shocking and most unwelcome revelation: that the ranks of colonial Nova Scotians, Islanders, and New Brunswickers included French, British, and Yankee slaveholders and slave-traders, all dead-serious about exploiting their human “property” and super-proud of their status.
George Eliot Clarke
author of Whiteout: how Canada cancels Blackness
former Parliamentary Poet Laureate
Brenda Thompson calls slavery a terrible stain on our history which must not be repeated. Her Introduction is strong and powerful and is meant to ensure that this blight on our history is never forgotten. This book is must-have for all schools and libraries.
Sharon Robart-Johnson
author of Two Sams