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DESCRIPTION:Charmaine Nelson will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Th
 ursday\, October 21\, at 12:15 pm. Her talk is entitled “Justice\, Propert
 y\, and Punishment: The Role of Montreal Sheriff Edward William Gray in Ei
 ghteenth-Century Quebec Slavery.” The institution of Transatlantic Slavery
  was premised upon slave owner control and enacted through systematized vi
 olence\, surveillance\, and prohibitions imposed by slave owners and their
  surrogates. While white male overseers and slave patrols and black male s
 lave drivers became normal aspects of tropical and semi-tropical plantatio
 n slavery\, in Canada where cold winters made year-round mono-crop agricul
 ture impossible\, male adjuncts to slave owner power took other forms. Thi
 s talk explores the role of the sheriff in eighteenth-century British slav
 ery in the province of Quebec to understand the significant ways that the 
 work of this British colonial official served to justify\, sustain\, and s
 upport slavery. Nelson writes\, “In this talk\, I shall draw from the exta
 nt business papers of the eighteenth-century Montreal sheriff\, Edward Wil
 liam Gray\, business associate of the slave owners and co-founders of the 
 Quebec Gazette\, William Brown and Thomas Gilmore. Specifically\, I will a
 nalyze how Gray’s service consistently engaged him in the inner workings o
 f slavery\, and importantly\, helped to sustain and protect the interests 
 of white slave owners in the colony. This case study is a pathway for me t
 o better understand the broader context of the experiences\, life\, and la
 bour of the person upon whom my larger research project is focused\, the e
 nslaved man called Joe. Enslaved by Brown and Gilmore and forced to work i
 n their printing office in Quebec City\, the African-born man called Joe w
 as named in six sets of Quebec fugitive slave advertisements across nine y
 ears (1777–1786). Although based in Montreal\, Gray’s correspondence with 
 Brown and Gilmore (in Quebec City) demonstrates his concern for the succes
 s of their business\, his commitment to upholding slave owner rights to th
 eir ‘human property\,’ and his desire to distance Quebec’s white citizenry
  from the more debased forms of British justice.”Charmaine Nelson will be 
 completing her fellowship\, which began in the 2020-21 academic year\, thi
 s fall. Nelson is Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Transatlantic Blac
 k Diasporic Art and Community Engagement at NSCAD University. She received
  her PhD in art history from the University of Manchester (UK) in 2001. He
 r research and teaching interests include postcolonial and Black feminist 
 scholarship\, transatlantic slavery studies\, and Black diaspora studies. 
 She has made ground-breaking contributions to the fields of the visual cul
 ture of slavery\, race\, and representation\, and Black Canadian studies. 
 Nelson has published six books including the edited book Ebony Roots\, Nor
 thern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada (Cambridge Scholars Press\
 , 2010)\, and the single-authored books The Color of Stone: Sculpting the 
 Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Minnesot
 a Press\, 2007) and Slavery\, Geography\, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century
  Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica (Routledge/Taylor & Francis\, 2
 016). Her seventh book\, Towards an African Canadian Art History: Art\, Me
 mory\, and Resistance (Captus Press\, 2018)\, is the first to consolidate 
 the field of African Canadian art history. Her current research project ju
 xtaposes fugitive slave advertisements\, portraiture\, and genre studies f
 rom Nova Scotia\, Quebec\, and Jamaica to examine differences in the visua
 l dimensions of creolization between slave minority and slave majority sit
 es of the British Atlantic world. She has garnered several prestigious fel
 lowships and appointments including a Caird Senior Research Fellowship\, N
 ational Maritime Museum\, UK (2007) and a Fulbright Visiting Research Chai
 r at the University of California – Santa Barbara (2010). In 2016\, she wa
 s named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, College of New Scholars\
 , Artists\, and Scientists and in 2017–18 she was the William Lyon Mackenz
 ie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University. Prio
 r to joining NSCAD University she was professor of art history at McGill U
 niversity.This event will be held via Zoom. A link will be circulated to r
 egistrants by 10 am on the day of the event. This event will be live with 
 automatic captions.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Justice\, Property\, and Punishment: The Role
  of Montreal Sheriff Edward William Gray in Eighteenth-Century Quebec Slav
 ery
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