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The Book of Negroes
by

Lawrence Hill

Brian Griffith's review

Mar 03, 2024

it was amazing

bookshelves: africa, history-general, north-america, lit

This novel builds on remarkably detailed research into the world of enslaved people in the 1700s. Then it fills in the universe of personal experience with close to the greatest performance of empathetic imagination I've ever seen. I'm really glad to have read it.

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