In 1839, in the British North American colony of Prince Edward Island, Tom Williams, a Mi’kmaw man, was convicted of murdering another Mi’kmaw man, Joe Louis, and sentenced to hang. Williams, however, did not hang. This article suggests possible reasons the colonial government chose to commute Williams’s sentence, linking the case to the dispossession of the Mi’kmaq and their subsequent marginalization by settler society as well as the “land question” then dominating the Island. The case epitomizes the ascendancy of British colonial law and the concurrent weakening of Mi’kmaw law in the colony.En 1839, dans la colonie britannique nord-américaine de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard, Tom Williams, un Mi’kmaq, fut reconnu coupable du meurtre d’un autre...
This article challenges the conventional view that a colonial state did not exist in eighteenth-cent...
This article aims to discuss the actions leading up to the trial, and the 1874 Langalibalele trial i...
The difficulties encountered by English authorities in resuming the regular and effective transporta...
In 1839, in the British North American colony of Prince Edward Island, Tom Williams, a Mi’kmaw man, ...
This article is a case study of the way the decision to commute a death sentence was reached. The Bi...
This article examines the bungled execution of Bennie Swim in Woodstock, New Brunswick, in 1922 foll...
This article examines the bungled execution of Bennie Swim in Woodstock, New Brunswick, in 1922 foll...
"The law should take its course". With this pronouncement, Lieutenant-General Sir William Jervois, G...
Despite the extent of frontier violence in the Port Phillip District (as Victoria was called before ...
This article investigates the difficult interface between metropolitan legal reform and empire in th...
This article returns to a colonial discourse on crime, criminals, and punishment that th...
This article will focus on the plight of ninety-three English speaking, North American political pri...
The exercise of the death penalty in England in the 19th century has long been a subject of academic...
This article describes Minnesota\u27s last state-sanctioned execution: that of William Williams, who...
The thesis primarily examines the legality of the courtsmartial that followed the 1838-1839 rebellio...
This article challenges the conventional view that a colonial state did not exist in eighteenth-cent...
This article aims to discuss the actions leading up to the trial, and the 1874 Langalibalele trial i...
The difficulties encountered by English authorities in resuming the regular and effective transporta...
In 1839, in the British North American colony of Prince Edward Island, Tom Williams, a Mi’kmaw man, ...
This article is a case study of the way the decision to commute a death sentence was reached. The Bi...
This article examines the bungled execution of Bennie Swim in Woodstock, New Brunswick, in 1922 foll...
This article examines the bungled execution of Bennie Swim in Woodstock, New Brunswick, in 1922 foll...
"The law should take its course". With this pronouncement, Lieutenant-General Sir William Jervois, G...
Despite the extent of frontier violence in the Port Phillip District (as Victoria was called before ...
This article investigates the difficult interface between metropolitan legal reform and empire in th...
This article returns to a colonial discourse on crime, criminals, and punishment that th...
This article will focus on the plight of ninety-three English speaking, North American political pri...
The exercise of the death penalty in England in the 19th century has long been a subject of academic...
This article describes Minnesota\u27s last state-sanctioned execution: that of William Williams, who...
The thesis primarily examines the legality of the courtsmartial that followed the 1838-1839 rebellio...
This article challenges the conventional view that a colonial state did not exist in eighteenth-cent...
This article aims to discuss the actions leading up to the trial, and the 1874 Langalibalele trial i...
The difficulties encountered by English authorities in resuming the regular and effective transporta...