Lord Dorchester and the Treatment of American Slaves

To learn more about Canadian or Quebec politics, both McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal offer wonderful political science degrees, that you may want to look into.

For further reading, Montreal's Concordia University has a wonderful women's studies program at the Simone do Beauvoir Institute

A history of the evolution of Canada is important to the understanding of the role of a governor general. We will look at four male governors at four different periods of Quebec and Canadian history. They mark the stage for governor generals. These men made decisions primarily on behalf of men. Women's issues were really not considered with any semblance of respect before the 20th century. The actions of these governors affected the lives of women and that is why they are chosen as a preamble before our women governor generals will be discussed.

We now are setting the tone for the three female Governor Generals of Canada, two of which were from Montreal Quebec. The duties of a governor general is to represent the ruling British Monarch in Canada. The governor general carries out administrative duties and also celebratory or festive activities.

Lord Dorchester and The Slavery Issue continued

Lord Dorchester had proposed a registry "called the Book of Negroes, entering their name, age, occupation, and name of their former Master so that the American slave owners could be paid for their now former slaves. The Americans agreed to the compensation; but, there is no actual record that any money was ever paid out. Some of the slaves were transported from New York to Nova Scotia and then on to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in Africa.

Slavery is a major women's issues as it not only involved lack of freedom, it involved, rape, beatings, forced sexual unions and the disruptions of families. Now families in this era could be free to form naturally and create a decent family life.

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Carleton,_1st_Baron_Dorchester