A Canadian Slavery Story

A story about a woman forced into slavery who may or may not have set Montréal on fire: Marie-Joseph Angélique.
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Special thanks to the Centre d'histoire de Montréal for permitting us to film on location. If you are interested in Montréal's history, you should absolutely check out the museum-you'll see the model we feature in the episode on display.
* Correction: Mathieu Léveillé's name is mispronounced in the video. We sincerely apologize for the error, which was the result of a missing accent on the second 'e' in our shooting script.
* Note: The Nôtre-Dame Basilica in Montréal today is a reincarnation of the building that Angélique was brought to in 1734. The ruins of the original building are buried beneath the Place d'Armes, right in front of the modern cathedral's entrance. Construction of the current building was completed in 1829.
* Disclaimer: Since there is no record of archival imagery for any of the subjects in this story, the character designs are entirely fictional for the purpose of illustration only (created using a blend of faces from historic photography archives).
Mathieu Léveillé suffered constant illness and severe melancholy as the executioner in New France from 1733 to 1743. He hated the job he was forced to do. He'd spent the first twenty-four years of his life in the Caribbean and had a difficult time adjusting to the change in climate-he was hospitalized at Quebec City's Hôtel-Dieu (the oldest hospital north of Mexico) almost immediately upon his arrival in Québec and again on numerous occasions. Léveillé died of pneumonia on September 9, 1743.
In Canada, unlike the south, the majority of enslaved people were of Aboriginal origin. The term "Panis" in its strictest sense actually referred to the Pawnees, a nation which inhabited the basin of the Missouri River and which was consistently targeted by the French. However, colonists soon began to use "esclave panis" as a generic term for any Aboriginal slave.
In 2012, a public square across from Montréal's city hall was named in honour of Marie-Josèphe-Angélique. However, the square was under construction when we went to film there in May 2017. A new unfinished public space named Place des Montréalaises was inaugurated in November 2017, and will be dedicated to Angélique among several other women.
See: goo.gl/B9UyqX
"The square is named in honour of women who have marked Montréal history. Fortin mentioned Jeanne Mance, Marie-Joseph Angelique, Jessie Maxwell Smith, Ida Roth Steinberg and the 14 engineering students murdered at Polytechnique Montréal in 1989."
The Hôtel-Dieu burned and was rebuilt three times between 1695 and 1734. In 1861 it was moved from Old Montreal to its present location near Mount Royal.
One of the best sources we had on this story was an award-winning website: Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History. You can read the actual transcripts of the trial, look over maps and images, and try to unearth the truth for yourself in this horrific tale. We will never know for sure who set the fire, but we do know that Angélique was brutally punished for standing up for her own freedom one way or another. You can sort through it all here: goo.gl/1G9nB2
The torture scene is taken from a public domain film made in 1922 called Häxan. It's Swedish-Danish silent-film that borders between documentary and horror. It just so happened to have the perfect depiction of 'The Boot.'
A few tangents (look for more on a future blogpost):
- Marie-Josèphe-Angélique was not silent during her trial, she consistently maintained that she had not started the fire right up until she was brutally tortured. She yelled at Marie-Manon when she felt betrayed by her testimony, and she pleaded with the widow's niece not to incriminate her-fearing she was being forced to against her will.
- Claude Thibault's timeline changes slightly in accounts. He was either released on the day of the fire, or the day or two before. In one case, he was seen eating a sandwich at an inn. When he was told that the Merchant's Quarter was on fire and Angélique the main suspect-he fled. Was he part of a another escape plan?
French subtitles by: Marika Lapointe

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  • @Kaynasou
    @Kaynasou3 жыл бұрын

    Turns out humans are disgusting in every country on earth. There was literally no need for her punishment to be this vile. Plus the kid could easily have been told to say that by her mother. Rumours aren't evidence either. May Marie-Joseph Angelique rest in peace. She was cheated of the justice she deserved

  • @twistoffate4791

    @twistoffate4791

    Жыл бұрын

    Well-stated.

  • @tiffaniterris2886

    @tiffaniterris2886

    Жыл бұрын

    Or, she could have set the fire.

  • @theswatguyxd8978

    @theswatguyxd8978

    7 ай бұрын

    Yeah it’s true

  • @Montreal_Supercarsshorts

    @Montreal_Supercarsshorts

    7 ай бұрын

    No, not in c-land (nobody lives there)😂

  • @user-qs7gx7rp7m

    @user-qs7gx7rp7m

    22 күн бұрын

    For positive proof simply consider your relatives.

  • @AmyCCloverlanez
    @AmyCCloverlanez4 жыл бұрын

    FINALLY!! A great video without robotic voices. Im American and am curious about Canadian history. Much respect to you, Canada!

  • @scholarlyanalyst7700

    @scholarlyanalyst7700

    3 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE Americans!

  • @cypher3604

    @cypher3604

    3 жыл бұрын

    ChattyPablo ok

  • @SeanJonas
    @SeanJonas4 жыл бұрын

    I wish this was in my Canada/Quebec history curriculum. It’s a shame that this story isn’t taught to us in school.

  • @dtkb3883

    @dtkb3883

    4 жыл бұрын

    The education system needs a total revamp to teach the real history of Canada’s FIM people and African Canadians. I hope more people will educate themselves as it’s long overdue.

  • @btwbrii

    @btwbrii

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh I’m in Canada and we watched this story not this video,but the story even tho it’s kinda bloody and dark we still watched a video based of it

  • @evasmith8651

    @evasmith8651

    2 жыл бұрын

    In America some are paranoid of this truth. They're calling everything crt . Progression is in process

  • @Bearrie747

    @Bearrie747

    2 жыл бұрын

    My African Canadian Studies class watched this video as apart of our course.

  • @jenndoe3233
    @jenndoe3233 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your work and dedication. As a fellow Canadian I enjoy watching your episodes.

  • @murphybrowne12
    @murphybrowne126 жыл бұрын

    There was no evidence, only rumours, no one saw her set the fire!! She was horribly tortured (the bones in her legs crushed) until she confessed!

  • @Canadiana

    @Canadiana

    6 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely true, we hope we made that clear in the video. We sit on the side that she most likely did not set the fire ourselves.

  • @Canadiana

    @Canadiana

    5 жыл бұрын

    Whoops, that was a strange grammatical error on our part. We doubled up on "we" and "ourselves." Chop "ourselves" out of that and we'll go with that sentence. To be clear, we lean toward thinking she did not set the fire, but we can't be sure.

  • @oneileo66

    @oneileo66

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Canadiana SIMPLY EDIT YOUR ORIGINAL COMMENT .

  • @renpawlowski942

    @renpawlowski942

    4 жыл бұрын

    there was a 5 year old girl who claimed to have seen her going to the house with coals before the fire but that could easily have been fake.

  • @coolawesome9482

    @coolawesome9482

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Canadiana Yea, not good man, c'mon.

  • @adamlamb1441
    @adamlamb1441 Жыл бұрын

    Well that was certainly a disturbing event in Canadian history I was never taught in school...

  • @k.n.v.b1113
    @k.n.v.b11134 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much guys ! quality stuff with amazing history that i would have never known !!!!! keep promoting your work !!!!

  • @verasantillana7042
    @verasantillana70426 жыл бұрын

    These are amazing and so well done, thank you!

  • @rperry5936
    @rperry59366 жыл бұрын

    why does this only have 1k views everyone should know this. Canadians are so ignorant to their history :(

  • @chayabat-tzvi1215

    @chayabat-tzvi1215

    5 жыл бұрын

    Klanada loves to portray itself as the "good country".

  • @scholarlyanalyst7700

    @scholarlyanalyst7700

    5 жыл бұрын

    Very true. Canadians are VERY ignorant of the ugly parts of their history!

  • @scholarlyanalyst7700

    @scholarlyanalyst7700

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@chayabat-tzvi1215 kzread.info/dash/bejne/i46NzM2eZLjOl9I.html

  • @abrahamisaacmuciusiii691

    @abrahamisaacmuciusiii691

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@chayabat-tzvi1215 Klanada and Amerikkka

  • @Marty3750

    @Marty3750

    4 жыл бұрын

    Americans are ignorant to their history too especially attacks against innocent people in foreign countries.

  • @rawc44
    @rawc444 жыл бұрын

    I never knew this story. I don't even have words. New subscriber to your channel

  • @MsCinderella1989
    @MsCinderella1989 Жыл бұрын

    So happy to have found this page

  • @kidmohair8151
    @kidmohair81517 ай бұрын

    for those of you interested in more depth on this event, I recommend Dr Afua Cooper's book, "The Hanging of Angélique"

  • @rondavis459
    @rondavis4594 жыл бұрын

    fascinating, sad. well done in the telling

  • @louiselloyd1523
    @louiselloyd1523 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much. THIS is the sort of history I wish I had been taught in school!!!!

  • @kaylabellbell9189
    @kaylabellbell91896 жыл бұрын

    very interesting and sad! I hope you come out west and do more stories!

  • @Canadiana

    @Canadiana

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching. We would love to come out west and we are definitely planning on it, we just don't have the funds to do so yet.

  • @poishish1
    @poishish16 жыл бұрын

    Once again this very interesting and so well executed !!!! Bravo !

  • @Canadiana

    @Canadiana

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for continuing to watch our episodes! We appreciate the kudos!

  • @RagnarokLoW

    @RagnarokLoW

    6 жыл бұрын

    unfortunate use of executed.

  • @trishr2165
    @trishr21654 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for telling her story

  • @lexie4928
    @lexie49284 жыл бұрын

    Glad to have found your videos.

  • @laryssamonnerat3922

    @laryssamonnerat3922

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not sure still whaching?

  • @finlaymooney3517
    @finlaymooney35176 жыл бұрын

    Keep doing what you are doing

  • @cl0wnju1ce87

    @cl0wnju1ce87

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Robert Turpin majority of that poverty is people of colour due to the wage gap that was massively affected by slaves, both from canada and other countries. you want to bring attention to poverty? how about make your own video on it and stop trying to silence history just because you're privileged and don't want to deal with the consequences of your ancestors.

  • @cl0wnju1ce87

    @cl0wnju1ce87

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Robert Turpin It's rich that you're claiming that I don't care because I was trying to shut you up, while you were doing the same thing about the video. Someone brought light to a woman who was tortured and killed by hearsay. Someone then praised them for bringing awareness. Then you ridiculed them and instead brought up an issue; one that's really important to you so of course you'd care about that and not about what this video is actually about. I only show people respect if they respect others. The real humanity is getting offended by discrimination of others. Maybe instead of clicking on a video you knew was about Canadian slavery and complaining, you should actually go and make a change instead of demanding praise for standing up for your own issues.

  • @cl0wnju1ce87

    @cl0wnju1ce87

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Robert Turpin what? why would me being where i am be a problem for me? because i don't agree with silencing other people's issues with your own personal issues?

  • @cl0wnju1ce87

    @cl0wnju1ce87

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Robert Turpin Seems like you're just talking about your own life. You clicked on this video about someone else's struggles, in order to talk about your struggling. That is just selfish.

  • @samanthamendosa1704
    @samanthamendosa1704 Жыл бұрын

    The background music was pretty distracting

  • @sitnspin8062
    @sitnspin80623 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos keep up the good work

  • @timothykatch1855
    @timothykatch18555 жыл бұрын

    Great job thank you

  • @ianhilmer2493
    @ianhilmer24934 жыл бұрын

    Putting things into perspective, the total population of chattel slaves in the colony of New France between 1689 and 1763 totalled 1131, the exact same number as the largest slave owner in U.S. history, Col. Joshua John Ward of 1850’s South Carolina. Isn’t that a coincidence!.?

  • @EdinburghFive

    @EdinburghFive

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not true. Marcel Trudel's research found about 4000 slaves. Of this number about 60% were Indigenous (Panis) and the rest Blacks. I hope you are not saying the Panis were not slaves? Trudel's work I believe only looked at New France and does not take into account the slaves of the British regime in Upper and Lower Canada or those in Nova Scotia. You are correct though that slavery in Canada was never as large and widespread an institution as it was in the Thirteen Colonies and afterward the USA.

  • @EdinburghFive

    @EdinburghFive

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hi @ Good to hear from you. Yes, as noted, I am familiar with the number of slaves thought to have been in the colony. Trudel did some great research. You might be sugar coating the idea of slavery during the French regime. The 4000 number, if I recall correctly, was for the French regime period and was made up of Indigenous and Black slaves. The number of about 10,000 I think might have been the number of slaves over the French and British period. Its been a while since I've read Trudel and some of the other writers on the matter. I don't think you really meant "...mainly about house keeping and brides". We are talking about French owned slaves. These slaves were not being married to their French owners. There are some that carried on household tasks, and others who worked for merchants, on the wharves, on farms, etc. as labourers. Slavery is slavery. To the slave did it really fundamentally make a difference what the nature of their servitude was? Under slavery there were differences as to the level of control, repression and the type of work slaves carried out. The use of slaves in New France and New England was very different from that in the southern colonies. The different economies drove differences in how slaves were used. The matter of slavery among the Indigenous people prior to the French, as well as the fact that some of the Loyalist who immigrated to Canada brought slaves is known but it really was not part of the discussion that focused on the French period. Are you using these facts to legitimize slavery in New France? We have no idea how many slaves the Indigenous groups had over the same period. You might be over simplifying slavery among the Indigenous groups. Also not all prisoners were taken for slave purposes. The Indigenous groups appear to have raided and taken people from other Indigenous groups for a number of reasons - to demonstrate war making prowess, to replace those who had died for various reasons in the tribe - these were not slaves but were adopted into the tribe, to acquire slaves for their own use or to sell as trade items to other indigenous groups or to the French. Others prisoners were taken to be tortured and killed.

  • @EdinburghFive

    @EdinburghFive

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hey @@chadw4969 - Yes some human have been know to eat each other. Hannibal Lecter liked his human with a little Chianti. So are you saying we should ignore history? We are nothing more than all the history that went before us, whether that was yesterday or the many thousand of yesteryears. Marcus Tullius Cicero captured the idea - "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" We can attempt to have a better future by understanding the past and not making the same mistakes committed in the past.

  • @EdinburghFive

    @EdinburghFive

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@chadw4969 I don't believe my comments had anything to do with whether slavery as bad. As you point out, that has already been established. My comments were concerning the level (numbers) and the nature of slavery in Canada. Ian Hillmer had stated a number that was too low. He also commented (and since deleted I believe) comments about the nature of slavery in Canada.

  • @tiffaniterris2886

    @tiffaniterris2886

    Жыл бұрын

    @@EdinburghFive - Nor was our "slavery" cruel.

  • @jtt4339
    @jtt43395 жыл бұрын

    Hey Neil Young why don't you do a song on this one

  • @samanthamendosa1704
    @samanthamendosa1704 Жыл бұрын

    I’m sure i missed some great information over the unnecessarily loud music…

  • @keepitallthewayfunky3448
    @keepitallthewayfunky34484 жыл бұрын

    These are fascinating,

  • @olubunmigab-opadokun3917
    @olubunmigab-opadokun39172 жыл бұрын

    Oh no! This is so sad. No human deserves to die in this manner 😓

  • @shivercanada
    @shivercanada4 жыл бұрын

    Superb!!!

  • @kevinclarke98
    @kevinclarke982 жыл бұрын

    Need more of this

  • @isaacbalson2990
    @isaacbalson29906 жыл бұрын

    Phenomenal work!

  • @Canadiana

    @Canadiana

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @gsasdgggg
    @gsasdgggg6 жыл бұрын

    So is there any historical proofs that she was innocent? I mean that's the undertone of this video. She had ample motive and the only witness to say she did not do it was her friend, out of dozens.

  • @Canadiana

    @Canadiana

    6 жыл бұрын

    Historians seem to be divided right down the middle-for many reasons-and we don't suggest you stop looking into it here with us. In fact, we hope viewers are interested enough to look into it further through other sources, because there's so much more to it we couldn't fit into a reasonable-length KZread video. Our position on the "did she or didn't she light the fire" topic hopefully comes across a little more ambiguous-we were hoping to lay out the facts as we found them and let the viewer decide-or not decide. The importance of her guilt is debatable in the context of the rest of the story-Angelique's life and ultimate fate were horrific regardless. There is more than one crime within this story. The general consensus seems to be: let's hope she lit the fire. One more thing: her friend, Marie-Manon, said to the authorities that Angelique did light the fire-not that Angelique was innocent. In the transcripts of the 'trial' it's recorded that Angelique was enraged by this testimony-though that doesn't really point in one direction or another. A lot of our episodes have hefty KZread descriptions that contain addendum to the stories we cover, so be sure to look into this one's to find out more.

  • @mikewill2667

    @mikewill2667

    5 жыл бұрын

    So what if she did! It all deserved to burn!

  • @empi4106
    @empi4106 Жыл бұрын

    There are some great haunted tours and reenactments of this very event. A great way to spend a warm Montreal night.

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    Warm? hot for sure

  • @blundy1
    @blundy1 Жыл бұрын

    English captions too? Great video, sad subject matter.

  • @deaconandrewkingtheinspira762
    @deaconandrewkingtheinspira7625 жыл бұрын

    RIP...my ancestor✝️💒📖🙏🏾

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    We’re all ancestors from God!

  • @1804Ayiti
    @1804Ayiti8 ай бұрын

    Heartbreaking story!

  • @poijupoij
    @poijupoij Жыл бұрын

    I'm glad youtube is around so videos like these can be made. There is not time in history class to teach all of history. One cannot expect to be taught of every arson or criminal or murderer. As for her being innocent? Common she already set one fire and got caught. And why would you baselessly blame it on the other woman while crying foul for Angelique?

  • @vaisseauspatialterre3768
    @vaisseauspatialterre37686 ай бұрын

    WE should remenber that first nations had slaves before the europeens arrived. Slavery was practice in every corner of the world and is still practiced today in many parts of the world.

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    Yup.. African chieftains sold and enslaved their own!

  • @tiffaniterris2886
    @tiffaniterris2886 Жыл бұрын

    And in the end.... she may have set the fire.

  • @alexmorin5424
    @alexmorin54242 жыл бұрын

    I from Montréal and I learn this fact in school and every time I am in sock when some of my friends did not studied the dark history of Canada at school 🏫

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    History teachers should be doing that just like the blacks in America didn’t know their own people sold their own on the shores of Africa!

  • @dangercat9188
    @dangercat91884 жыл бұрын

    it's a shame they don't teach Canadian history here in the u.s.

  • @jasonnelson639

    @jasonnelson639

    4 жыл бұрын

    They don't even teach slave history in Canada. It's all propaganda; which is why most Canadians to this day don't know Canada had a history of slavery.

  • @armaanchowdhury1690

    @armaanchowdhury1690

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why would they teach canadian history in the U.S? its not their country.

  • @scholarlyanalyst7700

    @scholarlyanalyst7700

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@armaanchowdhury1690 Why not teach Canadian history in the US? They are neighbors and US history is CERTAINLY taught in Canada!

  • @armaanchowdhury1690

    @armaanchowdhury1690

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@scholarlyanalyst7700 it's not the U.S' problem.

  • @scholarlyanalyst7700

    @scholarlyanalyst7700

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@armaanchowdhury1690 Why does it have to be their problem? When you get the 'dial in' for slavery (and after effects) in other societies, it might enhance the understanding of their own society. This can help better inform their government policy, government executive decisions, etc. Having varied insights will allow their decision and policy-makers to have a more well-rounded understanding of human nature, rather than having such a narrow view of the world. Well-rounded insights fuel more progressive policy!

  • @sophiabozeman4997
    @sophiabozeman49975 жыл бұрын

    She was never supposed to die!

  • @thesage1096
    @thesage10963 жыл бұрын

    woah thats heavy.

  • @chrismenary3340
    @chrismenary3340 Жыл бұрын

    So why was Angelique carrying a shovel filled with coil up to the attic, or did she not and the niece was just told to say that to pin the blame on her?

  • @3rdeyekweenmaat899
    @3rdeyekweenmaat8996 ай бұрын

    Thanks

  • @Jx83xB
    @Jx83xB4 жыл бұрын

    They should play your videos in secondary school history classes and have class discussions and or assignments on the disturbing but true history of Canada. I feel the majority of Canadians are ignorant to the dark history of our nation, even the majority of fellow First Nations don't know of the extent to which the Canadian government has tried to eradicate us in a genocidal system that had gone on for centuries and is still having a tragic impact on the majority of indigenous communities today.

  • @waviih5276

    @waviih5276

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hate how Canada tries to hide their history 🤦🏽‍♂️ we are just as bad as America

  • @simone6090

    @simone6090

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hey, guess what! I am a history teacher doing exactly that. There is also the excellent ressource Great Canadian Mysteries, that has a bunch of primary documents and lesson plans for teachers to tell this story and others. I highly recommend it.

  • @tiffaniterris2886

    @tiffaniterris2886

    Жыл бұрын

    @@waviih5276 Not even close to bei g close.

  • @strawberryblush914
    @strawberryblush9143 жыл бұрын

    We need to listen because they still doing this

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    You mean riots in the street and busting windows? Yup they are still rioting over bullshit!

  • @aerialpunk
    @aerialpunk7 ай бұрын

    I'd be interested in learning the legal difference between the slave and the indentured servant. Just out of curiosity.

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    Ask every country that has one or the other still to this day!

  • @tfh5575
    @tfh55753 жыл бұрын

    I think every black Canadian I have met has been first generation Caribbean. Haven’t met any North American slave descendants the way the US has. Haven’t even come across any online. Always Caribbean.

  • @mariannerichard1321

    @mariannerichard1321

    6 ай бұрын

    They are communities of Black Loyalists in Atlantic Canada which date from the American independence war. There were also settlement of Black Loyalists in Southern Ontario, if my memories serve me well. But they are probably less numerous than the Caribbeans immigrants nowadays and also less urban, so probably less online.

  • @alukuhito
    @alukuhito11 ай бұрын

    Canada needs to bring back the death penalty. Not for this kind of case, but for the obvious murderers that are a threat to society. I don't understand why Canada doesn't have capital punishment.

  • @vascolineanwei7484
    @vascolineanwei74843 жыл бұрын

    Ooooh wow 😢

  • @jessecerasus9621
    @jessecerasus96217 ай бұрын

    We don't know if she is guilty or not. An eye witness did saw her leaving the burning room.

  • @gagecarty4290
    @gagecarty4290 Жыл бұрын

    All that could be said is some friend,she may not have wanted to take the blame for her mistake even if the publshement was cruel, or did she run away with the man.

  • @garyclothier9914
    @garyclothier9914 Жыл бұрын

    They only slavery that happened in Canada was when Canada was called New France and it only happened in Quebec

  • @Llyd_ApDicta_Berlin

    @Llyd_ApDicta_Berlin

    Жыл бұрын

    Wasn't slavery outlawed there in 1807 alongside the rest of the British empire?

  • @9grand
    @9grand6 жыл бұрын

    Pas de moustachu au 18 siècles! Sinon bravo!

  • @stephaniegraham8616
    @stephaniegraham86164 жыл бұрын

    There were witnesses who saw them running back and forth so I dont understand how she was thought to set the fire. Even this video isn't adding up for me. 🤔

  • @hotcrazycatladyme168

    @hotcrazycatladyme168

    4 жыл бұрын

    I don't think it mattered if there was even a witness who was standing in front of her during the entire fire. she was black, she was a slave, she was guilty of arson already, and her (white) lover who helped start the first fire was missing. If god had parted the clouds and declared her innocent they would have just found a new god to listen to. You're trying to use logic, but they weren't being logical.

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    @@hotcrazycatladyme168sounds like the OJ murders.. jurors could have seen it but still let him off. 😂

  • @Meatlover971
    @Meatlover9716 ай бұрын

    Never again! & We shall never forget .

  • @Mental.Endurance
    @Mental.Endurance4 жыл бұрын

    You want to talk about oppression in Canada? Let's talk about the indigenous who continue to be killed by the government in a continued attempt to get them off of the land.

  • @darknessfadestolight4312

    @darknessfadestolight4312

    3 жыл бұрын

    ???? Free land tax, free university and college, and can also go to university in the US as long as they are living on the rez. Major tax breaks. Major indigenous outreach specifically for them. Native friendship centre. Dude do your research and I grew up around all these dudes. Close friends on the rez. close friend a band leader in BC. I'm not name dropping. In the Okanagan they are building estate wineries, golf courses, schools, beautiful landscape. We all actually coexist very well together. It's people like you who talk shit like that that make them still oppressed. I am an outreach worker. I love their culture. And been around and involved for years. Have a seat and I dont require mile long debates. most privileged race in Canada today. period and no some 20 yr does not deserve all that money because there grandparents were in residential school. gotta stop somewhere and sometime

  • @HS84775

    @HS84775

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well said

  • @btwbrii

    @btwbrii

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ok but America has yet to apologize Canada did America didn’t.

  • @Mental.Endurance

    @Mental.Endurance

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@btwbrii Apologize? Lol You like lip service?! I prefer action. And, by the way, the liberals and the democrats have no plans in protecting indigenous land or giving any of it back. In fact, UN Agenda 21/2030 is all about taking more land away from the people- pushing 90% of the population into high density smart cities under the guise of sustainability. This will mean that most of us wont own any land because we will live in an apartment or townhouse, wont be able to access provincial parks as they make them off limits to the public, and wont be able to purchase land out in the country if we wanted to. Private farmers will become a thing of the past. All of our food will be produced by government owned businesses. People better start waking up!

  • @btwbrii

    @btwbrii

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Mental.Endurance Canadas prime minister is saving up millions for indigenous Trump or Biden didn't do nothing

  • @tivchack
    @tivchack4 жыл бұрын

    Damn people were cruel back in the day!

  • @billpetersen298

    @billpetersen298

    8 ай бұрын

    The good old days.

  • @strawberryblush914
    @strawberryblush9143 жыл бұрын

    These is unbeleivable

  • @thomasbarca9297
    @thomasbarca92977 ай бұрын

    It’s sad this happened I hope we can reconcile with our history

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    Time to move on or every nation tribe and tongue will want reparations 😂

  • @michaelsalasny2908
    @michaelsalasny2908 Жыл бұрын

    One question don’t kill me the Brits didn’t even name it Canada until 1791. They abolished slavery in 1834, and we didn’t become independent until 1867, how is this a Canadian story.

  • @brittneynicoledustin8268
    @brittneynicoledustin82682 жыл бұрын

    How can someone burn a woman so cruel for wanting freedom

  • @shawnpitman876

    @shawnpitman876

    Жыл бұрын

    I mean if she set fires she was willing to burn others...

  • @blackacidthingTV

    @blackacidthingTV

    8 ай бұрын

    just another day with hateful people that show no remorse@@shawnpitman876

  • @DNice-vg7bc
    @DNice-vg7bc4 жыл бұрын

    1 of the 10 of 1000,000s of Canadian horror stories but Canada hands are so clean. Hypocrisy is an understatement.

  • @jasonnelson639

    @jasonnelson639

    4 жыл бұрын

    Canadians have always been brainwashed by propaganda.

  • @hre2044

    @hre2044

    3 жыл бұрын

    You realize natives ritually tortured their captives before enslaving them right? Far worse than the French did. They also tortured captives and cannibalized them. Do we talk about that at all? We don't. Native atrocities must come to light.

  • @hre2044

    @hre2044

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jasonnelson639 4,000 slaves is not a lot, slaves had lives comparable to indentured servants. Natives tortured captives and slaves, and still the Tlingit in Alaska were taking slaves in 1903. Look up the case Shah Quah

  • @cl0wnju1ce87

    @cl0wnju1ce87

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@hre2044 you should never use a piece of history to silence another piece of history. it makes you look like you're trying to hide something, or dismiss the stories and issues of others, those current and in the past. you want to bring light to "native atrocities"? go make a video about it instead. maybe only 4000 people became slaves, but they were slaves to your ancestors. and i don't think your family has paid them back, have they?

  • @hre2044

    @hre2044

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cl0wnju1ce87 History should be used to silence propaganda and bring context. The idea that whites are any more wicked than any other ethnic grouping is foolish, they owe natives nothing as individualism stipulates society should not be based around collective guilt and race essentialism. We live under a liberal individualist society, at least we did until leftists tookover the institutions. If the society at large only talks about one group committing attrocities, white ignoring all other groups that did them, do you not thing that's creating a bias in people's heads that whites are uniquely responsible for these things? The idea of the noble savage is clearly false, natives often worked with Europeans to destroy other native tribes and take their territory. I simply don't want my people being smeared as uniquely evil when every other group is responsible for the same things whites did in the past.

  • @iamgodbringeroflife1006
    @iamgodbringeroflife10062 жыл бұрын

    I cried...

  • @1966johnnywayne

    @1966johnnywayne

    2 жыл бұрын

    British cigarette.

  • @sherrikelly1708
    @sherrikelly17082 жыл бұрын

    sad what we as canadians have done to many tribes of people like the blacks , natives , the chinese , dukabours

  • @poijupoij

    @poijupoij

    Жыл бұрын

    Research on why we searched for new lands to the west. Hint: It starts with the Xiongnu. But maybe start with the mongols. Save some time.

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    Don’t forget what was done to whites all over the world too! Bloodshed hands are in every country! Time to move on do better!

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    And to whites! Yes all nations tribes and tongues did bad to each other!

  • @otahu26
    @otahu265 жыл бұрын

    "Slavery" is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property. A slave is unable to withdraw unilaterally from such an arrangement and works without remuneration. Slavery still exists around the world. The United Nations has said there are between 40 and 50 million people around the world even today that are Slaves.!! We here in the western world have become mentally lazy. We no longer expose people to many topic growing up as a child in school. Schools Only give you enough education to make you a great slave and behave the way the farm wishes you too. We Have become Naive to this in the western world. People Live in there Bubble wrapped world. Even the so called highly educated Professional people. Live in there glass bubble. There's a Form of sex Slave too! Woman Children and men Are bought and sold Just like cattle on a farm. There's a form of DEBT Slave also! It is still called Debt bondage, also known as debt slavery or bonded labour,(have ever herd the term. Can they be “BONDED”? If so, you got your slave score. Bonded Labour is the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation, where the terms of the repayment are not clearly or reasonably stated, and the person who is holding the debt and thus has some control over the laborer- This being a modren form of the banks holding over you your credit score. The government using Taxes deducted from your gains. Indentured servants were/are men and women who signed a contract (Gainfully employed) (also known as an indenture or a covenant, Employment Contract) by which they agreed to work for a certain number of hours per week and years in exchange for transportation, food, clothing and shelter. (YOUR CAR) and, (YOUR food) And YOUR clothing, and YOUR shelter.(mortgage on your house!) Have you signed a Contract for an Education in only one topical area of Expertise ?? Mm Doctoral, Masters..Yip Slaves! Have you signed a loan for your education, a car loan or Mortgage? Unless you buy something cash. Or pay for something with your profits. Your unknowingly a slave to your debt. An most of you all will never understand that! Is that an insult to your intelligence. Sort of. But did it just make you think about your life and situation. Hopefully!! Examples are Has that Modern Hockey Player Signed a contract to play so many games for a couple million a year?? They are Slaves too!! Never truly knowing that though. They are just the modern Gladiator of the Once great Roman empire! Didn't know this. But Gladiators in Roman where paid a lot of money!! Chefs where paid a lot of money too!! So Are you seeing how you've been brain washed into believing your Life is a "free" life??? The Illusions of freedom are all around you. Most of you live in a state of Compliance. An Not ever really knowing the cage you live in and under. You could be Liberal, Conservative, Open Minded, Religious. All these are the masterfully art of Animal training. To be an AWAKENED mind you must be able to see through the cloud of Animal Training. Teach your child Independence! Teach them Critical thinking!! Teach them Life skills!! Teach and expose them at as many topics as there are in an Encyclopedia!! Awaken your own mind, Soul and life!! Live free is you can!! An DARE!!

  • @arrowheadproductions1267
    @arrowheadproductions12674 жыл бұрын

    The big sad

  • @avsgriffy
    @avsgriffy8 ай бұрын

    Germany has no issue with teaching its students about the mistakes their country made in the past. We can't learn from our mistakes if we hide them.

  • @adajapalmer9763
    @adajapalmer97635 жыл бұрын

    Yuh da truth

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    And there’s why .. the grammar! 😂

  • @nessazion1062
    @nessazion10623 жыл бұрын

    JUSTICE IS REQUIRED FOR HER

  • @tiffaniterris2886

    @tiffaniterris2886

    Жыл бұрын

    She may have been guilty. So no.

  • @blackacidthingTV

    @blackacidthingTV

    8 ай бұрын

    wow@@tiffaniterris2886

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    Reparations I suppose? 🙄 then you got to go back to bible times about slavery!

  • @simondr70
    @simondr704 жыл бұрын

    Now talk about the French Colons who were hung for treason without court Marshall, for fighting for the French own territory ..

  • @godsuniqorn1043

    @godsuniqorn1043

    3 жыл бұрын

    This video isn't for that, sorry

  • @qmcnetwork

    @qmcnetwork

    Жыл бұрын

    Ils ne font que parler des pires histoires que le Québec a a raconté. Aucune mention de l'esclavagisme en ontario, bref, du Québec Bashing financé par le gouvernement.

  • @Indeewoods
    @Indeewoods3 жыл бұрын

    Just said she did it to get them to stop torturing her... sad story.

  • @CanadianMonarchist
    @CanadianMonarchist4 жыл бұрын

    How could she walk if her femurs were crushed?

  • @frogcat2767
    @frogcat27673 жыл бұрын

    It isn’t fair she never got her freedom ugh I hate racism

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    Yes racists against whites too don’t forget!

  • @RagnarokLoW
    @RagnarokLoW6 жыл бұрын

    goddamn the old days were shit

  • @nikolasao
    @nikolasao5 ай бұрын

    Private property is the root of all evil

  • @a.mysticpearl4146
    @a.mysticpearl4146 Жыл бұрын

    🖤✊🏽🔥

  • @TheGolfdaily
    @TheGolfdaily2 жыл бұрын

    FUCKED UP!

  • @ghettoyouthkatakyni7843
    @ghettoyouthkatakyni78435 жыл бұрын

    Quoi esclavage au Canada ?

  • @alexn.2901

    @alexn.2901

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oui, il y avait de l'esclavage au Canada

  • @itsLakishaa

    @itsLakishaa

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@S M Tu as raison, mais c'était bien après cet événement.

  • @scotti.6433
    @scotti.64334 жыл бұрын

    While I knew Canada had slaves, it did surprise me it was as many as four thousand.

  • @bsc4344

    @bsc4344

    4 жыл бұрын

    Now lets see historical revisionists show HOW MANY EX BLACK SLAVES made it to pre-Canada, how many were brought by pre-Canadians like my ancestor did, and how LITTLE preCanada participated in slavery. OH THATS RIGHT, todays fucktard asshole society is burning statues of early prime ministers and slandering/libelling/defaming anyone who originated this country... Its all the rage to demonize and ABUSE western society lately. LETS ALL BE VICTIMS AND DESTROY ANYTHING GOOD WE DID >:-(

  • @christopherblackhall2832

    @christopherblackhall2832

    4 жыл бұрын

    CANADA never had slaves!

  • @jasonnelson639

    @jasonnelson639

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@christopherblackhall2832 Why do you say that? Brainwashed much?

  • @hre2044

    @hre2044

    3 жыл бұрын

    The natives took slaves too, those were not recorded. Natives tortured their slaves after capturing them during raids, natives were worse to their slaves.

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    @@hre2044every country has blood on their hands!

  • @madmanx58
    @madmanx5824 күн бұрын

    So what history do you want it to be part of ? As well everything before 1800 is not part of Canadian History ?

  • @FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial
    @FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial3 жыл бұрын

    That was by the French, not the British.

  • @frostedpumpkin3910

    @frostedpumpkin3910

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes the British did much worse

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    @@frostedpumpkin3910so? They’re all guilty back then! Time to move on!

  • @frostedpumpkin3910

    @frostedpumpkin3910

    Ай бұрын

    @@Caareenkm6726 😂 you’re watching a history video

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    @@frostedpumpkin3910you are too! So? Life goes on! Move on. Every country is guilty of bloodshed! Time to do better!

  • @rpratt3746
    @rpratt37466 ай бұрын

    thanks for this as upset as i am.

  • @randomness3235
    @randomness32354 жыл бұрын

    Cannabis prohibition was fundamentally racist in both Canada and US, albeit differently; today's monopolization of it and is no exception to that.

  • @hre2044

    @hre2044

    3 жыл бұрын

    It should be banned, it's degenerate.

  • @randomness3235

    @randomness3235

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@hre2044 Only a fool would say such a thing.

  • @hre2044

    @hre2044

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@randomness3235 No, only degenerates and libertarians want it legalized.

  • @randomness3235

    @randomness3235

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@hre2044 You really have no idea what you're talking about; a plant you know nothing of.

  • @hre2044

    @hre2044

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@randomness3235 A degenerate drug that gets people high.

  • @manitoban3
    @manitoban3 Жыл бұрын

    This story makes me ashamed to be Canadian.

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    Not me! Time to move on. I didn’t do that and neither did my ancestors! I’m not paying for old crimes! Every country has bloodshed on their hands!

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    I’m not ashamed as I and my ancestors had nothing to do with it!

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    Why? Did you do it!? I didn’t either!

  • @sophiabozeman4997
    @sophiabozeman49975 жыл бұрын

    That was terrible

  • @Marcel-fo2cb
    @Marcel-fo2cb5 ай бұрын

    People were so cruel them days,Her skin color dint help either

  • @rhondaclark716
    @rhondaclark7162 жыл бұрын

    Had us as slaves

  • @manchagojohnsonmanchago6367

    @manchagojohnsonmanchago6367

    2 жыл бұрын

    Buck breakin

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    Whites were slaves too .. hee haw !

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    Who wasn’t a slave?

  • @Oldjongcrow416
    @Oldjongcrow416 Жыл бұрын

    😶👈HO LY SHIT...

  • @quiits3144
    @quiits31443 жыл бұрын

    do you know why she is really important?

  • @marytee9847
    @marytee98472 жыл бұрын

    Slavery was long abolished before Canada’s 1867. British Colonies - had slavery, Canada itself wasn’t’ yet Canada.

  • @lateve6243

    @lateve6243

    Жыл бұрын

    There was a French colony named Canada and Canadiens living in it long before the Confederation.

  • @stanhohmann
    @stanhohmann7 ай бұрын

    And still we cant admit theres too much racism and bigotry in canada

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    Yes against whites too!

  • @garyclothier9914
    @garyclothier9914 Жыл бұрын

    Quebec has a separate Constitution it's not part of Canada

  • @EdinburghFive

    @EdinburghFive

    Жыл бұрын

    Good luck with that position.

  • @garyclothier9914

    @garyclothier9914

    Жыл бұрын

    @@EdinburghFive my apologies that you don't see the scam Merry Christmas

  • @EdinburghFive

    @EdinburghFive

    Жыл бұрын

    @@garyclothier9914 A rather random post.

  • @MH-wd6sy
    @MH-wd6sy5 жыл бұрын

    whoever disliked this video can burn in hell

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    You’re so sweet! 🙄

  • @christopherblackhall2832
    @christopherblackhall28324 жыл бұрын

    Funny video because canada didn’t exist back then and never in Canadian history did we ever have legal slaves

  • @gigijnbaptiste6974

    @gigijnbaptiste6974

    4 жыл бұрын

    Stop trolling. Does 1619 not mean anything?

  • @gigijnbaptiste6974

    @gigijnbaptiste6974

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Enslavement was introduced by French colonists in New France in the early 1600s, and lasted until it was abolished throughout British North America in 1834. During that two-century period, Canada was involved in the transatlantic slave trade. Within the country's borders, people were bought, sold and enslaved." - Black Enslavement in Canada

  • @EdinburghFive

    @EdinburghFive

    4 жыл бұрын

    Is that not just splitting hairs. Canada as the nation we know today did not exit but of course there are areas of what is Canada today that in the French and British colonial period did have slavery.

  • @gigijnbaptiste6974

    @gigijnbaptiste6974

    4 жыл бұрын

    @ I get my info from historians, not internet trolls. Disappear!

  • @alaynaxmichelle
    @alaynaxmichelle Жыл бұрын

    This is such a great story, but dude's voice is a tad annoying.

  • @shieldbossman4859
    @shieldbossman48595 жыл бұрын

    Long before Canada was established.

  • @scholarlyanalyst7700

    @scholarlyanalyst7700

    5 жыл бұрын

    Shield Bossman There are 2 problems with your reply. 1st of all, hypocritical Canadians like to take all the credit for the underground railroad - which also occurred before confederation. The bigger problem, however, is that the various regions of the land (Upper Canada; Lower Canada; maritime regions, etc.) each had their own, independent law-making bodies. These were the TRUE Canadians that were born here and the forefathers of the multi-generational Canadians living today. Specifically - cities like Montreal; Halifax; Fredericton; etc. - all have definite slave histories. These were the founders of Canada when it did hit confederation. Also - slavery was abolished in the land now called Canada ONLY by British decree. The Canadian forefathers very much resisted (many of whom were slaveholders). If it was not for the British Abolition Act that forced the various law-making bodies of the land to give up slavery, Canada would have, no doubt, entered Confederation as a slave-holding country. We have to thank the British - not the various pre-confederation law-making bodies of Canada - that Canada formed without slavery. These true Canadians were every bit as brutal, racist, and slave hungry as Southerners. The only difference is that they were too coward to fight the British military for the right to keep their slaves (they certainly wanted too)! So they had no choice but to follow the British decree. Keep in mind that the British Abolition Act was designed for the entire empire. England itself outlawed slavery by 1772 around the same time Canada was rejecting abolitionist calls to put a stop to the practice. So stop being in denial of the MASSIVE wrong-doings of Canadians and their forefathers!

  • @EdinburghFive

    @EdinburghFive

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@scholarlyanalyst7700 - The British North American colonies, despite they had internal governance structures for local matters, each was under British law and thus had no choice in the matter of accepting all laws enacted by Britain. There was no independent government in the colonies. They were headed by British Governors whose job it was to administer the colonies under the British law.

  • @jasonnelson639

    @jasonnelson639

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@EdinburghFive You could say pretty much the same thing for the USA pre-1777. They were every bit as much under British rule but rebelled to form COMPLETELY independent law-making bodies. I think the main point is that many of Canada's founding forefathers - as well as many multi-generational Canadians living in Canada today - can trace their lineage to slave-holding families. There are also black Canadians living today who trace their roots to the earliest days of the transatlantic slave triangle. It's also highly disingenuous to say the country of "Canada" never permitted slavery but to also turn around and say that "Canada" engineered the underground railroad. It's called "Canada" (pre-confederation) only when it supports the false narrative of kindness and moral superiority.

  • @Caareenkm6726

    @Caareenkm6726

    Ай бұрын

    @@scholarlyanalyst7700so? Move on.. times have changed!

  • @scholarlyanalyst7700

    @scholarlyanalyst7700

    Ай бұрын

    @@Caareenkm6726 Another butt hurt Canadian, have we?

  • @onemore6163
    @onemore6163 Жыл бұрын

    Horrible

  • @kenster8270
    @kenster82704 ай бұрын

    3:04 Handsomeness galore! Looks like Angélique had impeccable taste in lovers 😍

  • @keikairin2038
    @keikairin20387 ай бұрын

    You have to remember that Quebec, Southern Ontario, New Brunswick and the Labrador part of Newfoundland were originally French. French owned colonies in Africa produced slaves which were shipped to their other colonies. They also enslaved Native Canadians locally. They think there were 4000 slaves but more Natives enslaved (60%) then Africans (28%). No I don't know the race of the other 12% possibly Irish Indentured Servants. (remember this is just Canada). The majority of the "slavery" that occurred in Canada were holdovers from existing French colonists. I will not deny, yes some English colonists did practice slavery before it was officially abolished but it was a much smaller number. Like of the 1500 slave owners, 78% were French, to 12% British. These folks had what 1-3 slaves. Not the same scale as the southern plantations in the US so very likely not as poor living conditions (its easier to comfortably house an extra 1-3 people then 20). Chances are these people were living like indentured servants. Not cages or bunkhouses or anything. We don't know how many slaves were held by Indigenous but they held them too.