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What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans? How would that have changed the ways that people justified their inhuman behavior? How would it inform our cultural attitudes and the insidious racism that still lingers today? We see this tragicomic world turned upside down through the eyes of Doris, an Englishwoman enslaved and taken to the New World, movingly recounting experiences of tremendous hardship and the dreams of the people she has left behind, all while journeying toward an escape into freedom. A poignant and dramatic story…

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5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2010
    Brand: Riverhead · 269 pages · 9781594484346
  • Paperback · English · 2010
    Penguin Books · 272 pages · 9780141031521
  • Hardcover · English · 2008
    Hamish Hamilton · 260 pages · 9780241143858
  • Other · English · 2020
    Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141917573
  • Other · English · 2009
    Riverhead Books · 9781594488634
Slave tradealternate historyFictionChildren's fictionSlavery, fictionUnited states, fictionFamily life, fiction