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A painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI who enslaved humans, some even after the practice became illegal.The reader will find here the names of many of the most prominent families of Atlantic Canada. Illustrated with images of 'runaway slave' advertisements, letters from the powerful to each other about their dealings in the powerless, and extracts from court hearings when the enslaved tried to bring their owners to account.

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"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 ClarkeAuthor of Whiteout: how Canada cancels BlacknessFormer 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-JohnsonAuthor of Two Sams This book will be an essential contribution to the Canadian public's understanding of slavery. Professor Harvey Amani Whitfield, author ofBiographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes"

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Brenda J. Thompson has been a local history buff and writer all her life. Plays, short stories, press releases, protest chants, non fiction, fiction...nothing escapes her pen. An anti-poverty activist by nature, writer by choice, Brenda has won awards for her writing. In 2019, Brenda founded Moose House Publications to provide a platform for writing in and about rural Nova Scotia. As of December, 2023, Moose House has published more than 70 titles, many by first-time authors.Brenda lives in Perotte, Nova Scotia, not too near to Annapolis Royal.

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