Voices of Native Slaves in the Judicial Archives of the Jurisdiction of Montreal
The Constant case lends itself perfectly to intersectional analysis, which invites us to think about the plurality of forms and the logic of domination (in particular sex, race and class) and the complexity of their articulations. Indeed, it reveals the power dynamics that govern the all-female house in which the crime of a panis slave is perpetrated in 1757. Above all, beyond the perennial and tragic truth – and yet so often hidden in plain sight – that it reveals of the Native slavery in Montreal and in New France, it allows us to “hear” the voices of native slaves and to measure their agency.