A fascinating, unsettling look at a slave’s life - SentinelSource.com: Books

A fascinating, unsettling look at a slave’s life - SentinelSource.com: Books: "his year’s 150th anniversary commemoration of the Civil War has naturally focused on race, and has brought forth a number of biographies of slaves in mid-19th century America.
Of course slavery in North America had a long history prior to that wrenching conflict, including a nationally identifying moment when the social and political dynamics were remarkably complex.
Despite popular impressions of Patriots marching in unison to throw off British rule, our Revolution was very much an internal conflict, as Tories who favored the status quo comprised as much as one-third of the colonial population.
That is the setting for Kevin G. Lowther’s fascinating biography of John Kizell, a West African who experienced slavery on two continents during a time of shattering economic and political change."

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