New Brunswick True Crime: The Executions of George & Rufus Hamilton
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Tue, 31 May, 2022 at 10:00 pm to Wed, 01 Jun, 2022 at 12:00 am
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Join us on Zoom for a talk by St. Thomas University professor Michael Boudreau: "A "tragic drama" of Murder & Racial Identity: The Executions of George & Rufus Hamilton."The double-hanging of the Hamilton brothers (George, age 23 and Rufus, age 22) at 2:00am on 26 July 1949 in the York County Jail (now home to Science East, adjacent to the popular Boyce Farmers’ Market in Fredericton) for the murder of a white taxi-driver, Norman Burgoyne, was considered by many to be a just conclusion to what the police had characterized as “one of the most brutal murders in the province’s history.” This was the last execution to occur in New Brunswick's capital. These men lived on the margins of society due to their poverty and lack of formal education. Moreover, their “negro racial extraction” further compounded their marginalization in a predominately white community. The execution of George and Rufus Hamilton is another example of the Canadian justice system’s desire to punish what was understood to be Black peoples’ inherent criminal, and deviant, behaviour.
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Greg Marquis is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: M. Boudreau talk to NB Historical Society
Time: May 31, 2022 07:00 PM Atlantic Time (Canada)
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