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Jan 2023, 336 pages
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Aug 2023, 352 pages
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Eleanor Shearer's debut novel River Sing Me Home, set in the Caribbean in the immediate aftermath of the 1834 Emancipation Act that legally abolished slavery in most British colonies, was influenced by her fieldwork in St. Lucia and Barbados for her Master's degree in politics at the University of Oxford. Our First Impressions reviewers showered the book with praise, giving it an average rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars.
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A keenly observed lyrical historical novel about an enslaved mother's resolve to search for her five children sold away from her. When the plantation master in Barbados announces in one breath that the Emancipation Act of 1834 abolishes slavery, but in the next breath takes all that joy away, stating the enslaved are now "apprentices" for the next six years and cannot leave the plantation without grave consequences, Rachel decides to take her ...
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