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I can't believe it took me so long to read this book. It was a phenomenal way to evaluate the generational challenges caused by slavery. It is told from different perspectives from characters from several generations. The story starts with English colonizers taking slaves away from their villages and travels through time to modern day ancestors of those slaves. Even with so many characters throughout the book, their stories are weaved together in a brilliant way. Highly recommend this book to ev
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Apr 08, 2017
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The book begins with two half sisters in Ghana, Effia and Esi, one of whom marries a British colonel and the other is sold in slavery. We then follow their ancestors through many generations. Each chapter is devoted to a different person. The book is very ambitious, covering over 200 years in 300 pages. I felt like it tried to cover too much in a relatively short space. Each chapter was around 30 pages long. I didn't feel like enough time was devoted to any one character to really get to know th
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It's not the most upbeat book you'll ever read, but I'll be thinking about it for quite a while. She's an excellent story teller.
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Highly recommend. Loved everything about this book.
An incredible account of a family split apart, and how their lives were effected by the slave trade, both in Ghana and in the USA.
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