If you want a slightly longer version of some of the historical themes behind the story of Clara - more on Toronto's Black history, or gender and sexuality, or crime and punishment, Historia Canadiana's hour long interview with me (I tried to hyperlink all this but total HTML fail: https://sites.libsyn.com/425342/inter...

There is much more to come! I'm rapturous about the media interest. Let me take the opportunity to recommend a few other great Black Canadian history books:
"Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present", by Robyn Maynard" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
"Where Beauty Survived: An Africadian Memoir", by George Elliot Clarke https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
"The Hanging of Angelique: the untold story of Canadian slavery and the burning of Montreal", by Afua Cooper
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...