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Blonde roots

by Bernardine Evaristo
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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.

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First published
August 2008
Pages
296
Reading time
About 6 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Young readers
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
ISBN
9781594488634
Series
Standalone

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