Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958 by Barrington WalkerWhile slavery in Canada was abolished in 1834, discrimination remained. Race on Trial contrasts formal legal equality with pervasive patterns of social, legal, and attitudinal inequality in Ontario by documenting the history of black Ontarians who appeared before the criminal courts from the mid nineteenth to the mid twentieth centuries. Using capital case files and the assize records for Kent and Essex counties, areas that had significant black