The only mention of sisters Jude and Diana in Nova Scotia's official history relates to their deaths: a slave-owning family was brought to trial for Jude's murder in 1801. They were acquitted, then years later, Diana mysteriously died in their home, too. Sharon Robart-Johnson honours these archival glimpses of enslaved people by re-creating the fullness of Jude and Diana's lives. Through Robart-Johnson's meticulous research, we experience eighteenth-century...