COMING SOON
Historical fiction – French-Canadian drama
Slavery
love
torture and death
Canadian criminal court 1734
AUTHOR’S NOTE: why I wrote ‘Angélique – Montréal is Burning ’- The Colonial slave was torn from their family and homeland. It was a life of bondage, cruelty, and hard work. They had no freedom at any level, nor did they have a voice.
Marie-Josèphe Angélique was born, in 1705, in Madeira Portugal. As a young girl she became a victim of the triangular trans-Atlantic slave trade. Traded from slave owner to slave owner, she did her best to comply to the rules the white supremist society had laid out. Marie-Josèphe all too often she spoke out against her masters. She resented her bondage and was labelled as rebellious.
More than anything she wanted to gain her freedom and return to her beloved Madeira. The crime against runways was severe, yet it was always a consideration: “The runaway slave…shall have his ears cut off, and shall be branded with the fleur de lis on the shoulder…. On the third offence, he shall suffer death.”
During the night of April 10, 1734, a blaze consumed forty-six buildings, in Montréal . The people of la Nouvelle-France needed a scapegoat – someone had to be held responsible for the tragic loss that occurred within the new colony. Buy Amazon E-book – coming soon