In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Charmaine Nelson (UMass Amherst / Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellow) explores how transatlantic slavery was grounded in violence and systems of control imposed by enslavers and their surrogates. In Canada, one such surrogate was the sheriff. Nelson draws from the extant business records of eighteenth-century Montreal sheriff Edward William Gray, who worked to sustain and protect the interests of white enslavers such as the Quebec City printers William Brown and Thomas Gilmore. This case study offers a lens through which to better understand the broader context of the individual at the center of Nelson’s larger …
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