| Description |
327 pages : illustrations, map ; 23cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1.What's in a Name? -- 2.On Whiteness -- 3.Allelopathy- of Black Walnut -- 4."A Goodly Portion of the Life of Benjamin Drew" (and Mine) -- 5.Ley Lines: At Fishkill -- 6."So That His Master Might Have Him Again" -- 7.On the "North" River -- 8.The White City -- 9.On the Mohawk Trail -- 10."And Then We Came by Land" -- 11.In the Longhouse -- 12.A Now as Well as a Then -- 13."The Pen-and-ink Work" -- 14.Of Black Currant -- 15."The Interior Inhabited Parts" -- 16.Numbers -- 17."Beaten or Shaped by Hammering" -- 18."Decus et Tutamen (An Ornament and a Safeguard)" -- 19.What's in a Name? (Again) -- 20."To Pierce the Heart of the Recipient with Love" -- 21.The Humble Petitions -- 22.Hoardings of Amnesia -- 23.In the Current -- 24.Tempus Fugit -- 25."And the Gardener Forever Held the Peace". |
| 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."-- Provided by the publisher. |
| Form |
Issued also in electronic format. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Enslaved women -- Canada -- Biography.
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Freed persons -- Canada -- Biography.
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Enslaved persons (OCoLC)fst01120522
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Canada.
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Canada https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkMHVW4rfVXPrhVP4VwG3 (OCoLC)fst01204310
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
(OCoLC)fst01120540
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Slave trade (OCoLC)fst01120405
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Burthen, Sophia.
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Freed persons (OCoLC)fst00933987
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Imperialism -- Social aspects
(OCoLC)fst00968140
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Biographies.
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Slavery (OCoLC)fst01120426
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Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
(OCoLC)fst01120577
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Enslaved persons -- Canada -- Social conditions.
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Postcolonialism -- Social aspects
(OCoLC)fst01982445
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Enslaved women (OCoLC)fst01178532
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Slavery -- Canada.
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Slavery -- Canada -- Social conditions.
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Postcolonialism -- Social aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography (DNLM)D019215
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Enslaved persons -- Canada -- Biography.
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| Local Subject |
Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Canada.
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Imperialism -- Social aspects.
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Slave trade -- Canada.
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Slavery -- Social conditions
(OCoLC)fst01120490
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hunter, Andrew, 1963- It was dark there all the time. Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions, 2022 1773102214 9781773102214 (OCoLC)1262737177 |
| ISBN |
9781773102191 (softcover) |
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1773102192 (softcover) |
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9781773102214 (epub) |
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