The Chatham vigilance committee & other forms of Black resistance (18 окт 1820 г. – 18 авг 1880 г.)

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"Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the first Black woman to run a newspaper, ran the Provincial Freeman, where she advocated for abolition and wrote editorials denouncing sexual violence against Black women by white men (Bristow 1999: 110). Shadd Cary was also the assistant secretary of the Chatham vigilance committee, one of many vigilance committees established to protect newly free Black people from being re-enslaved by American slave catchers. In 1858, armed with clubs hundred of Black men and women and some white male supporters rescued an enslaved Black ten-year0old child named Sylvanus Damarest from a train in Chaffin, Ontario. For this 'crime,' five committee members were arrested and some committee members were charged with starting a riot (Bristow 1999: 116-18). This era of Black resistance (and the state repression that accompanied it can be counted among the earliest Black struggles against forced removals in Canada, and as foregrounding the anti-deportation struggles of later years."

Robyn Maynard. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017). Pg. 29-30

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