e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Call NumberItem BarcodeBib NumberISBN/ISSN       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Hunter, Andrew, 1963-     Subjects     Burthen, Sophia.     Women slaves -- Canada -- Biography.     Slavery -- Canada -- History.     Slave trade -- Canada -- History.     Slaves -- Emancipation -- Canada.     Freedmen -- Canada -- Biography.     Imperialism -- Social aspects.     Postcolonialism -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hunter, Andrew, 1963-       by title:      It was dark there al...       by call number:      306.362092 B973h     Search the Web     Hunter, Andrew, 1963-     Burthen, Sophia.     Women slaves -- Canada -- Biography.     Slavery -- Canada -- History.     Slave trade -- Canada -- History.     Slaves -- Emancipation -- Canada.     Freedmen -- Canada -- Biography.     Imperialism -- Social aspects.     Postcolonialism -- Social aspects.       MARC Display

It was dark there all the time : Sophia Burthen and the legacy of slavery in Canada / Andrew Hunter. by Hunter, Andrew, 1963- Goose Lane Editions, 2022. Call #: 306.362092 B973h Subjects Burthen, Sophia.   Women slaves -- Canada -- Biography.   Slavery -- Canada -- History.   Slave trade -- Canada -- History.   Slaves -- Emancipation -- Canada.   Freedmen -- Canada -- Biography.   Imperialism -- Social aspects.   Postcolonialism -- Social aspects. ISBN:  9781773102191 (pbk) Description:  327 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "'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.' These words, recorded by Benjamin Drew in 1855, provide Sophia Burthen's account of her arrival as an enslaved person into what is now Canada sometime in the late 18th century. In It Was Dark There All the Time, writer and curator Andrew Hunter builds on the testimony of Drew's interview to piece together Burthen's life, while reckoning with the legacy of whiteness and colonialism in the recording of her story. In so doing, Hunter demonstrates the role that the slave trade played in pre-Confederation Canada and its continuing impact on contemporary Canadian society. Evocatively written with sharp, incisive observations and illustrated with archival images and contemporary works of art, It Was Dark There All the Time offers a necessary correction to the prevailing perception of Canada as a place unsullied by slavery and its legacy."--Publisher. Holds:  3   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 306.362092 B973h Adult books Item being held Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 306.362092 B973h Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 306.362092 B973h Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.