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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-nineteenth century"--
They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths,...
2) A reckoning
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It's 1855, and the Dickinson farm in Virginia is already in debt when a Northern abolitionist arrives and creates havoc among the slaves. Determined to find his mother and daughter who are already free in Canada, Bry is the first to flee, inspiring a dozen others. Soon the farm, owned by one brother and managed by another, is forfeited to the bank. One brother, a circuit-riding preacher, gathers his flock into a wagon train and heads west. But...
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