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novels about slavery

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Post by Ash » Fri October 10th, 2008, 11:20 pm

I can't think of the title or author (I know, booksellers hide when they see me coming!) but the premise of the book is true: a novel by a slave was found, and after much research and analysis was found to be true. The author of the book describes the discover and analysis (this was the best part of the book), then includes the actual novel. Unfortunately as much as I wanted to like it, I couldn't get into it.

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Alan Gurganus

The March by EL Doctorow

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Post by boswellbaxter » Fri October 10th, 2008, 11:31 pm

[quote=""Ash""]I can't think of the title or author (I know, booksellers hide when they see me coming!) but the premise of the book is true: a novel by a slave was found, and after much research and analysis was found to be true. The author of the book describes the discover and analysis (this was the best part of the book), then includes the actual novel. Unfortunately as much as I wanted to like it, I couldn't get into it.

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The Bondswoman's Narrative?
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Post by AuntiePam » Sun December 7th, 2008, 6:17 pm

The Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

I'll second the recommendations for Someone Knows My Name, The March (Sherman) and March (the Civil War experience of the father in Little Women), Property and Nat Turner.

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Post by Ash » Sun December 7th, 2008, 7:00 pm

[quote=""boswellbaxter""]The Bondswoman's Narrative?[/quote]


I missed this somehow: yes, thats the one.

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Post by Divia » Sun December 7th, 2008, 7:43 pm

I tried to read march once and just couldnt get into it. Maybe one day I'll try again...maybe.
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Post by Ash » Sun December 7th, 2008, 8:50 pm

Octavia Butler's Kindred is history, slavery with time travel. Very very powerful book.

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Sally Hemings

Post by Margaret » Wed February 17th, 2010, 2:48 am

I reviewed Sally Hemings last month at HistoricalNovels.info. I thought it was a wonderful novel, beautiful and complex, about Thomas Jefferson's slave Sally Hemings. Their relationship comes across not just as an artifact of slavery, but as a relationship that embodies certain universal truths about the silences and constraints that tend to emerge in many relationships.

Barbara Chase-Riboud shared some fascinating information in the interview I've just posted on my blog. Did you know the caretakers of Monticello ripped out a small spiral staircase in Jefferson's bedroom there after Chase-Riboud's novel was first published?
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Post by princess » Wed February 17th, 2010, 3:29 pm

Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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Post by Ash » Thu February 18th, 2010, 12:07 am

Ok someone help me - its a sci fi time travel book, written by a recently deceased sci fi writer; The main character goes back in time to when her ancestor was a child slave and she recues him from drowning. I can't remember the title or author but I loved the book.

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Post by annis » Thu February 18th, 2010, 12:41 am

I'm thinking maybe Octavia Butler's "Kindred"? Though it's so long since I read it that I may have lost the plot!

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