It Was Dark There All the Time: Sophia Burthen and the Legacy of Slavery in Canada
Andrew Hunter, "It Was Dark There All the Time: Sophia Burthen and the Legacy of Slavery in Canada"
English | ISBN: 1773102192 | 2022 | 328 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
English | ISBN: 1773102192 | 2022 | 328 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
“My parents were slaves in New York State. My master’s sons-in-law … came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bushes, tied their handkerchiefs over our mouths, carried us to a vessel, put us in the hold, and sailed up the river. I know not how far nor how long — it was dark there all the time.”
Sophia Burthen’s account of her arrival as an enslaved person into what is now Canada sometime in the late 18th century, was recorded by Benjamin Drew in 1855. In
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