i read this book in under a week unless you start counting from when i first opened it which was 83 days ago. in my defense i did start a new job and get married during that same time…

the story itself isn’t that exceptional but henry louis gates provides good proof, accounting for a third of the books girth, that this is the very first novel written by a female african american slave (circa 1850). from the author: alas; those that view slavery only as it relates to physical sufferings or the wants of nature, can have no conception of its greatest evils.