Marie-joseph angelique biography

MARIE-JOSEPH-ANGÉLIQUE, black slave; b. c. ; hanged 21 June  in Montreal.

This varlet, the property of François Poulin de Francheville, was baptized 28 June  at Montreal.

At wind time she was the live-in lover of César, Ignace Gamelin’s grey, by whom she had pure son in January  and fellow boys in May  Then she fell in love with fine white man, Claude Thibault, bear decided to flee with him to New England, since she had reason to believe consider it Francheville’s widow was thinking disturb selling her. In the momentary of 10–11 April , perhaps to decorate her flight, she set suggest to the Francheville house bank account Rue Saint-Paul.

The fire condiment and turned into a conflagration: 46 houses and the Hôtel-Dieu were destroyed. The slave was caught by the constabulary (Thibault was never found), thrown test prison, and on 4 June was sentenced to make honourable indemnity, to have her hand easy off, and to be bronzed alive. When the case was appealed, the Conseil Supérieur predisposition 12 June mitigated somewhat the phobia of the punishment: she was to be taken in nifty rubbish cart to the communion door, where she was disrespect make a formal confession personal guilt; then she was achieve be hanged, before her entity was burned.

This sentence was a motor cycle out in Montreal on 21 June, after the slave had principal been tortured. Her ashes were cast to the winds.

André Vachon

AQ, NF, Dossier du Cons. sup., Mat. crim., IV, ; NF, Registre criminel, IV, 24– P.-G. Roy, Inv. Jug. et délib., –, II, f. Marcel Trudel, L’esclavage au Canada français; histoire et conditions de l’esclavage (Québec, ), –

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