It Was Dark There All the Time
It Was Dark There All the Time
Marilyn Stanley
, Jude Castillo
, Barry Kazimer
, Janice Hutchinson
, Linda Leitch
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Andrea Pole
, Karen Nordrum
, Holly Elisabeth
, Natasa Ilic
, finn mulryan
, Meradith Anderson
, Deana Bueley
, Linda Shields
, Crystal Inwood
, Dana Silnicki
, LJ Law
, Phyllis VanDusen
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Melissa Kohlman
, Trisha Corkwell
, Judith Pearson
, Jessica Trento
, Debra Fisher
, Chantal Comeau
, Rose Hately
, Deb Philippon
, Sarah Tennyson
, Laurie Burns
, Marilyn Stubberfield
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Sara Conway
, Sonia Adams
, Catherine Westerberg
, joy mills
, Lise Gaston
, Debbie Youngman
, Carl Scott
, Jane Graham
, Rodney Cross
, Margaret McKay
, Bob Paterson-watt
, Melissa Poremba
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Deanna Smith
, Char Krausnick
, Maria Mclean
, Christine Lion
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Margaret Jones
, Paula Adam
, Chris Lantz
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Penelope Penner
, Benita Hartwell
, Kevin Smith
, Ellen Clarke
, Mary Lester
, Mary Campbell
, Kerri Conrad
, Kate Kostandoff
, Patricia McKeown
, Susan Baues
, P. Thompson
, Ken Gilmour
, Deanna Radford
, Liz Moreau
, Noelle Walsh
, John Bell
, Joan Clare
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Michelle Power
, Margaret Lindo
, Brenda Power
, Randi Ann Doll
, Kim Cappellina
, Vicki Bedford
, Kym Marsh
, Cathi McLean
, Janice Cournoyer
, Patricia Johnson
, Vivian Thorgeirson
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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 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.
