The City Burst Into Flames When They Crossed Her Like This
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 12 April 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Marie-Joseph Angelique wasn't anything to play with, so when her captors denied her release, she got literally fired up. The city went up in flames as she fled to a better life, but true hell still awaited her.
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| 0:00.0 | The city went up in flames as she fled to a better life, but true hell still awaited her. |
| 0:10.0 | This is Two-Minute Black History, and she had every right to be. |
| 0:30.6 | Her captors denied her request for freedom. |
| 0:34.6 | Rumors began spreading about their plans to sell her again, so she devised a fiery |
| 0:40.5 | plan of her own. Marie Joseph Angelique and her lover set her bed ablaze, crept through the |
| 0:47.6 | smoke, and fled towards New England to board a ship to Europe. But anti-blackness tried to stop them cold in their tracks. |
| 0:56.7 | Cops apprehended the couple and sent Angelique back to the plantation. |
| 1:01.9 | She wasn't done fighting for her freedom, though. |
| 1:04.4 | Angelique knew that her liberation was worth the risk. |
| 1:19.6 | Thank you. the risk. When 46 buildings in Montreal Merchants' quarter neighborhood went up in flames, Angelique |
| 1:26.1 | was accused and arrested within one day. |
| 1:29.5 | Angelique maintained she didn't set the fire, but after a five-year-old girl testified against her, |
| 1:35.9 | she was sentenced to death. After a grueling six weeks, she was tortured, hung, and burned alive. |
| 1:48.2 | Even worse, they made an enslaved man carry out the execution. Marie Joseph Angelique knew what we must remember. Escaping the system |
| 1:55.3 | of anti-blackness might mean burning it all down in exchange for the betterment of our people. Today, Marie is celebrated |
| 2:04.3 | as a symbol of black resistance and freedom in Canada. In order to move towards the future, |
| 2:11.6 | you've got to look to the past. This has been Two Minute Black History, a podcast by Push Black. |
| 2:17.3 | If you enjoyed this episode and wanted to show your support, |
| 2:20.2 | please rate and subscribe to our podcast. |
| 2:23.2 | Together, let's celebrate an honor of the legacy of black history. |
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