![]() ![]() ![]() It’s something we must reckon with, if we want to make this country more just and fair. But this book is a clear reminder of our brutal, racist, genocidal past. The book is set during the bicentennial, which is when it was written, and this setting is significant, given how much America was celebrating at that time. Dana’s account of these atrocities gives the reader an idea of what slave life was like, and the unimaginable horror of just surviving and enduring. Families are casually torn apart to pay debts, or in some cases just to prove a point. Slaves on the Weylin plantation are brutalized, raped, and tortured, and yet Weylin’s father, Tom, their master, is considered by the slaves to be mild in comparison to other slave owners. Dana travels back and forth between the 1820s and 1976, finding that while she has been in the past for several hours, days, or months, she has usually only been gone for comparatively short periods of time in the present. Dana becomes the protector of young Rufus Weylin, the heir to a plantation, and she later learns that he is one of her ancestors. It is hard to do this book justice, but the day to day life of a slave in the American south is described in great and horrifying detail. Dana, an African American writer, is transported back to the antebellum south, and this is where the horror begins. ![]()
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