Black wemon in bondage

Running away was another form of resistance. There was a fence with a high-peaked gate opening from Duke street now Adelaide Street , into the lot where were built two big barns and a stable to house the horses, cows, sheep and pigs he brought with him from Niagara, and a chicken coup.

Marisa Fuentes has eloquently theorized the ethical and corrective stakes of this process as reading along the bias grain, like "cutting fabric on the bias to create more elasticity," to show enslaved women as a "spectral influence" on white and black men and women.

Asserting Crown authority included formalizing and standardizing slave law including the fact that status follows the mother , supporting slave trade to the Caribbean, and boosting settlement. No longer servants to slave owners, black women were contractual servants to their husbands due to the patriarchal principles governing the role of women in marriage.