Juneteenth Lecture by Charmaine A. Nelson

"Enslaved Females in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century North America: Examining the Fugitive Slave Archive"

Through an examination of the fugitive slave archive and other sources, this lecture seeks to fill some of the scholarly gaps on the experiences of enslaved females of African descent in Canada. More specifically, it will offer some distinctions between the lives and experiences of enslaved females in slave minority (temperate) and slave majority (tropical) sites in the British transatlantic world.