Todays episode talks about the dirty secret of Trans-Atlantic and Indigenous Slavery in Canada. Learn how the runaway enslaved woman Charlotte Cook got her freedom in Montreal in 1798 and how slavery functioned in the colonies of Canada, how or how it wasn't abolished, and the ways "whiteness" in the Settler-colonial slaving order of Canada was maintained for people like Charlotte's owners and James McGill.

*CW rape and sexual labour in slavery*

2: Freeing Charlotte Cook, 1798 and Slavery in Canada

How do the enslaved Indigenous "Panis" and blacks in diaspora experience catholicism? Marcel Trudel identifies the Jesuits as the most prolific slave owners in Quebec society. How was mission architecture, church furnishings or other devotional objects understood by the enslaved? How was the transitionary rite of baptism experienced by people who were now owned by their masters as well as God?
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Slideshow: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LgU2UICcOFasgGt2bWKxFJmL1EnkpjyB/view?usp=sharing
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Further reading:
Rushforth, Brett. Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France. (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2012).
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Lenik, Stephen, “Mission Plantations, Space, and Social Control: Jesuits as Planters in French Caribbean Colonies and Frontiers” in Journal of Social Archeology, Vol 12, Issue 1, 2012.: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1469605311426546
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Gruzinski, Serge, “Individualization and Acculturation: Confession among the Nahuas of Mexico from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century” in The Church in Colonial Latin America, eds. John F. Schwaller (Wilmington: Scholarly Resource Books, 2000):
https://books.google.ca/books?id=Ua-KVOruWWwC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=serge+gruzinski+Individualization+and+Acculturation&source=bl&ots=NZWgeF0ySr&sig=ACfU3U25PGK5rC3Wo-QPt2pYOYIF4HrxmA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjn4vi5z4TgAhUH74MKHQDmCgQQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=serge%20gruzinski%20Individualization%20and%20Acculturation&f=false

6: A Slave to God, Subjugation and Controlling the Enslaved of the Clergy in New France

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Chris Gismondi is a queer nb Settler artist-activist, pole dancer circus freak, Canadian Art History grad student, amateur podcast host #ourhomeONnativeland

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