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A Quick Tip by cpw1952

Dec 18, 2010

by cpw1952

THE BOOK OF NEGROES gives today's readers the opportunity to savour a novel like Alex Haley's ROOTS and to experience the horror, shame and embarrassment of acknowledging that such abhorrent conduct towards black people is an indelible part of North America's past.

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Quick Tip by Jacquie. June 23, 2010

A Quick Tip by Jacquie

Raw truth. Healing and compelling.

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review by cpw1952. February 21, 2010

A powerful indictment of Canada's part in the history of slavery!

Many of us will remember being moved to tears by the power and depth of "Roots", Alex Haley's compelling novel on the slave trade that was published almost 40 years ago. Lawrence Hill's "The Book of Negroes" gives contemporary readers the opportunity to savour a very similar novel and to experience the horror, shame and embarrassment of acknowledging that such abhorrent conduct towards black people is an indelible part of North America's past. I was … more

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Paul Weiss (cpw1952)
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