Abstract
Introduction In late-nineteenth-century Raleigh, Ontario, the attention of a whole town was riveted to the spectacle of an entire black family on trial. Seven members of the Freeman family, Cecilia, Jeremiah, Lemuel, William Henry, George, Elizabeth, and Alexander, stood in the court docket for the murder of a white constable while a packed courtroom savoured the salacious details of the trial. The tale of the Freeman family case engendered much commentary, played out on many different levels, and had all the elements of high drama: murder, bastardy, and miscegenation.1
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