Cathie-Anne Dupuis, auteur/autrice sur Généalogie et histoire du Québec https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/author/cathie-anne-dupuis/ Le blog de l'institut Drouin Wed, 14 Dec 2022 20:07:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/cropped-cropped-IGD-large-1-32x32.png Cathie-Anne Dupuis, auteur/autrice sur Généalogie et histoire du Québec https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/author/cathie-anne-dupuis/ 32 32 Our slave-owning ancestors, part 2 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2021/07/14/our-slave-owning-ancestors-part-2/ Wed, 14 Jul 2021 19:45:58 +0000 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/?p=2606/ This article follows up on the one published on July 7th 2021, and aims to highlight the presence of First Nation and Black slaves within the English and French populations of the Laurentian valley. Source : Création Bernard Duchesne James McGill is one of the most famous cases of a slave owning member of the …

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]]> Our slave-owning ancestors, part 1 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2021/07/07/our-slave-owning-ancestors-part-1/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 20:02:11 +0000 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/?p=2576/ My last publication, Slavery as witnessed through New France’s parish registers, demonstrated how the presence of enslaved First Nation and African slaves on Quebec territory could be detected in the parish registers. This first study only grazes the surface of this poorly documented population’s history. This article will demonstrate that slavery was omnipresent in French …

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]]> Slavery as witnessed through New France’s parish registers https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2020/11/02/slavery-as-witnessed-through-new-frances-parish-registers/ Mon, 02 Nov 2020 20:24:24 +0000 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/?p=1904/ Slavery has allowed many societies to generate income at the expense of the exploited. While the history of slavery is no secret, few Canadians know that their ancestors benefited from this exploitation under the pretense of white superiority. As early as 1629, until its abolition in 1834, Natives and Black people were enslaved by the …

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