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The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a real masterpiece. I loved it. The characters come alive on the pages and you can almost feel their emotions. Often raw and unpleasant, I think this might give us a taste, or just a glimmer, of the horrors of slavery. The total submission of one human to another. The nightmare of being subject to the whims and fancies of an overseer who is sick with power and impaired by drink.
The book is filled with emotions that most of us can only imagine and with fears that we might not even imagine.
Not to be "enjoyed but to be understood and to help us develop an understanding of slavery on a personal level.

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