Assignment #6 black history month

hey readers ,

As you all know next month coming up is black history month in February.
This assignment is about all great black people that have helped the world in some way or are just people that have done something great.
I picked Marie-Joseph Angelique.
The reason i have picked her is because she was a slave and gone though alot of stuff that people don't have to do now.She was a slave in Montreal merchant,DE Francheville, carried out one of the most dramatic acts of resistance on April 11, 1734.
After learning that she was going to be sold she set a fire to her owner's house in order to cover her escape. The fire destroyed 46 buildings including the Hôtel Dieu, but in June of 1734 she was captured,tortured, paraded through the streets, then hanged and her body burned.While Canada did become a safe haven for runaway slaves, this country does have its own history of slavery. Marie-Joseph Angélique was a slave owned by François Poulin de Francheville in Montreal.
In the spring of 1734, a fire that started at the Francheville’s home destroyed forty-six buildings in the colony, including the Hôtel-Dieu hospital. It is alleged that Marie-Joseph set the fire “out of wickedness” to cover her plan to escape slavery and travel to New England with her white lover.
She was captured, brought to trial and, under torture confessed to the crime. The evidence, however — the testimony of 20 witnesses, none of whom saw her commit the crime — was circumstantial. Her sentence, death by hanging, was carried out on June 21, 1734, in front of the burned remains of the Francheville’s home.
Look for more information at:http://blackhistorypages.net/pages/mjangelique.php

Marie-Joseph Angelique also wrote a book,and it was called The Hanging Of Angelique.It was about how she speaks to us in a voice that cannot be ignored or suppressed any longer – that of the resistance to slavery. Angélique is a rebel, a woman who must die and who speaks truth to power.