User:Geo Swan/Amy Pompadour

Amy Pompadour was a black woman, described as the last slave in Upper Canada. According to Spacing magazine, Peter Russell, the Province's Inspector General, purchased her, her mother, Peggy; her brother, Jupiter; and her sister, Milly.

James Cleland Hamilton speculated that since Russell tried to sell her mother and brother, but never tried to sell Amy, Russell saw her as more valuable, more cooperative, than the rest of her family.

Henry Scadding, who arrived in York, Upper Canada, as a boy, in 1821, described her in his 1873 memoir as "tall and comely".

Amy, and her sister Milly, were given to Sophia Denison, the wife of John Denison, by Russell's sister, and heir, Elizabeth Russell, who was Denison's god-mother.

John Ross Robertson