Sales advertisements and runaway slaves notices from Quebec city's newspapers between 1767 and 1791:
John Williams's advertisement for the barbershop he ran with his brother from 1870 to 1920 on St-Louis street. Born in 1834 from a jamaican father and an irish mother, he died in 1913:
J. WILLIAMS cor. St. Louis & Garden, Professor of Crinicultural Abscission and Cranilogical Tripsis, Tonsorial Artist, Physiognomical Hair Dresser, Facial Operato, Cranium Manipulator and Capillary Abridger, &c., &c. General Montcalm's old head quarters. Private Parlor for Ladies and Children's Hair Cutting Entrance on Garden Street
The Maison Jacquet in 1870, when the brothers John and James David Williams had there barbershop on Saint-Louis street in Quebec city.
June 4th 1734, the slave Marie-Josèphe-Angélique was sentenced to death for allegedly setting fire to a part of the city of Montreal to cover her flight with her lover to New England. Her appeal to the Superior Council of Quebec was denied and the latter upheld the previous judgment. She was tortured and hanged on June 21st and her ashes scattered to the wind. The hangman was also a slave, Mathieu Léveillé from Martinique; it was his first execution. The following document is the confirmation of the death sentence, dated June 12th 1734:
Source: BIBLIOTHÈQUE ET ARCHIVES NATIONALES DU QUÉBEC. See the detailed documents here.
On April 13th 1709, the intendant Jacques Raudot issued an order in Quebec, Trois-Rivières and Montreal about the servile status of the black and native slaves in New-France:
Source: BIBLIOTHÈQUE ET ARCHIVES NATIONALES DU QUÉBEC. See the detailed documents here.
"A view of the Jesuits College and Church" by Richard Short (1760). There is a couple followed by a black slave in the lower right corner.
Source: M970.67.7 | Print | A view of the Jesuits College and Church | Richard Short | 1760 | © McCord Museum
See the detailed document here.
See the detailed document here.
"Ruins of the Intendant Palace" by George Heriot in 1799. According to the writer Frank Mackey, the black man pictured could be either John Harrison or George Skeen, two beggars living in Saint-Roch near the ruins of the Intendant palace at this time.
Source: 953.132.27; Ruins of the Intendant's Palace (watercolour); George Heriot; ROM2006_7738_1. With permission from the Royal Ontario Museum © ROM.
"Minuets of the Canadians" by George Heriot circa 1801. Two black musicians are pictured.
Source: 996.124.1; Minuets of the Canadians (watercolour over graphite on laid paper); George Heriot; ROM2006_7634_1. With permission from the Royal Ontario Museum © ROM.
Books about the black presence and slavery in Quebec/Canada
BILÉ, Serge, Esclave et bourreau, L’histoire incroyable de Mathieu Léveillé, esclave de Martinique devenu bourreau en Nouvelle-France, Québec, Les éditions du Septentrion, 2015, 165 pages.
GUAY, Daniel, Les Noirs du Québec : 1629-1900, Québec, Les éditions du Septentrion, 2004, 516 pages.
MACKEY, Frank, Black Then : Blacks in Montreal 1780s-1880s, Montréal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004, 225 pages.
MACKEY, Frank, L'esclavage et les Noirs à Montréal, 1760-1840, Montréal, Cahiers du Québec, Hurtubise, 2013, 662 pages.
MACKEY, Frank, Done with Slavery : The Black Fact in Montreal, Montréal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010, 604 pages.
RUSHFORTH, Brett, Bonds of Alliance, Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France, Williamsburg, University of North Carolina Press, 2012, 424 pages.
TOBIN, Jacqueline, From Midnight to Dawn, The last tracks of the Underground Railroad, New York, Anchor Books, 2007, 172 pages.
TRUDEL, Marcel, Deux siècles d'esclavage au Québec, Montréal, Éditions Hurtubise HMH, 2004, 406 pages.
VIGER, Jacques, LAFONTAINE, Sir Louis-Hyppolite, De l’esclavage en Canada, Société Historique de Montréal, Montréal, 1859, 155 pages.
WHITFIELD, Harvey Amani, North to bondage, Loyalist slavery in the Maritimes, Vancouver, UBC Press, 2016, 181 pages.
WINKS, Robin W., The Blacks in Canada, A history, 2nd edition, Montréal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997, 546 pages.
GUAY, Daniel, Les Noirs du Québec : 1629-1900, Québec, Les éditions du Septentrion, 2004, 516 pages.
MACKEY, Frank, Black Then : Blacks in Montreal 1780s-1880s, Montréal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004, 225 pages.
MACKEY, Frank, L'esclavage et les Noirs à Montréal, 1760-1840, Montréal, Cahiers du Québec, Hurtubise, 2013, 662 pages.
MACKEY, Frank, Done with Slavery : The Black Fact in Montreal, Montréal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010, 604 pages.
RUSHFORTH, Brett, Bonds of Alliance, Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France, Williamsburg, University of North Carolina Press, 2012, 424 pages.
TOBIN, Jacqueline, From Midnight to Dawn, The last tracks of the Underground Railroad, New York, Anchor Books, 2007, 172 pages.
TRUDEL, Marcel, Deux siècles d'esclavage au Québec, Montréal, Éditions Hurtubise HMH, 2004, 406 pages.
VIGER, Jacques, LAFONTAINE, Sir Louis-Hyppolite, De l’esclavage en Canada, Société Historique de Montréal, Montréal, 1859, 155 pages.
WHITFIELD, Harvey Amani, North to bondage, Loyalist slavery in the Maritimes, Vancouver, UBC Press, 2016, 181 pages.
WINKS, Robin W., The Blacks in Canada, A history, 2nd edition, Montréal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997, 546 pages.