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Blonde roots by Bernardine Evaristo

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Blonde roots

by Bernardine Evaristo

What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans?

Slave trade alternate history Fiction Children's fiction
Author Bernardine Evaristo
Published 2009
Format Book

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About Blonde roots

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. A poignant and dramatic story grounded in provocative ideas, *Blonde Roots* is a genuinely original, profoundly imaginative novel.

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