Sample 4: Written – printed – Academic Writing – Humanities – W2A-010

Teelucksingh, Jerome (2010). The Lost Gospel: Christianity and Blacks in North America. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.

Reproduced by permission of Jerome Teelucksingh.

<#>Fleeing Crucifixion: Migration to Canada

<#>All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God's name and our teaching may not be slandered. (Timothy 6:1)

<#>The early enslaved persons were First Nations or indigenous peoples known as panis. <#>In 1501, Gaspar Corte-Real, a Portuguese explorer, landed in Newfoundland. <#>He subsequently captured and enslaved 50 native persons. <#>Almost three decades later, in 1535, Jacques Cartier, a French explorer, captured 10 members of the Iroquois and carried them to be displayed in France.

<#>One of the earliest known enslaved Blacks in Canada was Olivier Le Jeune in 1632. <#>He was born in Madagascar, Africa and as a child was captured by the traders of the enslaved. <#>Subsequently, Le Jeune was given to the Kirke brothers in Québec. <#>In 1632 the Kirkes decided to sell him and depart for Britain. <#>This action was prompted by the Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye in which Québec was returned to France. <#>The young slave was educated by Father Paul le Jeune of the Society of Jesus, who recounted, "...the other day I had a little Savage on one side of me, and a little Negro or Moor on the other, to whom I taught their letters."1 <#>1 Robin Winks, "Negro School Segregation in Ontario and Nova Scotia," Canadian Historical Review 50 (1969): 167.

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