The Hanging of Angelique
Subtitle: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 370
Copyright date: 2006
First sentence: On the morning of June 21, 1734, at 7: a.m., Pierre Raimbault, judge of the court for the jurisdiction of Montreal, and Charles-Rene Gaudron dr Chevremont, notary and also one of the court assessors, went to the court chambers in the local prison to pronounce judgment on Marie-Joseph Angelique, slave woman of Madame Therese de Couagne de Frencheville.