No one knows what became of Chloe Cooley after she was forcibly taken by boat across the Niagara River from Upper Canada to upstate New York on March 14, 1793. The enslaved Black woman was bound with rope by her enslaver Adam Vrooman and brought, screaming and struggling, across the Niagara River to be sold.
![David Wilson profile picture and the cover of his book, "Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police." The cover shows an illustrated person holding and standing on a flag.](https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/sites/default/files/styles/ne_3btn_widget/public/david-wilson-book-lead.png?itok=mTJSX7db "David Wilson profile picture and the cover of his book, "Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police." The cover shows an illustrated person holding and standing on a flag.")
![A collage of images of three women from different time periods, with the right image being an illustration of a nun; on the left of the images are the words "Dictionnaire Biographique du Canada"](https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/sites/default/files/styles/ne_3btn_widget/public/DCB-women.jpg?itok=-PNIrTgz "A collage of images of three women from different time periods, with the right image being an illustration of a nun; on the left of the images are the words "Dictionnaire Biographique du Canada"")