Racial Slavery and the Development of Gendered Power in the Quebec Gazette: The Role of Fugitive Slave and Slave Sale Notices, 1765–1791

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Title
Racial Slavery and the Development of Gendered Power in the Quebec Gazette: The Role of Fugitive Slave and Slave Sale Notices, 1765–1791
Abstract
In 1764, the first newspaper to be founded in the now British-controlled “Province of Quebec,” the Quebec Gazette, was put into circulation. It published its first fugitive slave notice not long afterwards in 1765. The author explores how these notices, along with advertisements for slave sales, contributed to constructing and reaffirming the rigid race hierarchy in Montreal and Quebec City, and upon which slavery stood throughout British North America. The author argues that through infantilizing imagery and the discourse of wenches, the fugitive slave and slave sale notices created a common discourse of race power comprehensible to the Province’s linguistically diverse colonists.
Publication
Journal of Eastern Townships Studies / Revue d'études des Cantons-de-l'Est
Volume
No. 47
Pages
11-37
Date
Fall 2016
Language
en
Citation
Martin, Valerie. “Racial Slavery and the Development of Gendered Power in the Quebec Gazette: The Role of Fugitive Slave and Slave Sale Notices, 1765–1791.” Journal of Eastern Townships Studies / Revue d’études des Cantons-de-l’Est No. 47 (Fall 2016): 11–37.
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