This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...to city youths and city parents, was an object of terror; the streets of Quebec, after dark were then as dangerous as those of Liverpool or Portsmouth. More than one roystering blade, --and some of good families too, --after falling in the claws of the Press Gang, found themselves, next morning, on the deck of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...to city youths and city parents, was an object of terror; the streets of Quebec, after dark were then as dangerous as those of Liverpool or Portsmouth. More than one roystering blade, --and some of good families too, --after falling in the claws of the Press Gang, found themselves, next morning, on the deck of some of the trim frigates anchored under the guns of Cape Diamond. YeaTS after, with countenance bronzed mayhap by tropical suns, the long missing "Willie" would oceasionaly return to his Canadian home, a wiser, if not a braver man.1 Slavery with-us, is a thing of the past; it was so, we may say, at the beginning of the century. Though the colony can boast of having abolished domestic slavery-long before our progressive neighbors succeeded to stamp it out of the " land of freedom," after wading knee-deep in the blue blood of the South, its origin and existence at Quebec is not without interest. The Relations Ues Jisnites, 2 tell how in 1628, a black boy from Madagascar was sold at Quebec, by i Amongst other victims of this barbarous institution, enforced from 1807 to 1814, during the life and death struggle between England and Imperial trance, an athletic young mariner, of the Island of Orleans, was kidnapped in a lower-town coffee house, and after faithfully serving His Majesty King III, on board a man-of-war for twelve years, he returned to his Island home, and subsequently became a res pected pater familial. His name was Barihelemy Lachance; one of his sons, who died within a few years, was the parish physician, Dr. Lachance; as athletic in shape as his late farm and well remember in Quebec. s Relations des Jesuites Cor 1632, page 12. "" " 1633, "2-5. one of the Kirkes, to one Le Bailly, for fifty...
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