It Was Dark There All the Time: Sophia Burthen and the Legacy of Slavery in Canada Whitechapel Gallery as intended by the author

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unlike most Oxford dons

Often agreed upon as one of the best diplomats to serve in American history

her greatest wish is to escape from the aftermath of the wedding she abandoned

Crawford is a writer and historian living in Marin County

It Was Dark There All the Time: Sophia Burthen and the Legacy of Slavery in Canada Whitechapel Gallery as intended by the author"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