It Was Dark There All the Time parenting and the celebrated opera

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It Was Dark There All the Time parenting and the celebrated operaMy parents were slaves in New York State. My masters 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 Burthens account of her arrival as an enslaved person into what is now Canada sometime in the late 18th century, was recorded