We hear the ground-swell of freedom from the music the fugitives are making in the dormitories of South Carolina, a progressive state: symphonies of sounds originating from the slave plantations they have flown.
Freedom is palpable in the education programmes and rehabilitation measures for wounded spirits and broken souls. Colson Whitehead paints these efforts in poignant scenes. Round the table at the fugitive sanctuary of Valentine Farm, abolitionists debate the coloured question.
Luminaries who visit the farm deliver rousing speeches that quicken the blood of the negro residents. In the mounting resentment of the farm's white neighbours, freedom for Africans in America is brewing. The whites who witness the flourishing and prospering of this negro outpost in the middle of Indiana, sense with growing fear, the rising of a black nation. It took a second read for me to comprehend the grandeur of the novel which Colson Whitehead has written.
On my second read, I discovered an epic poem constructed with a tiered magnificence that conjures the mountainous land out of which a multitude hands —black and white — have carved out and mapped out pathways to freedom. A multitude lives risked and often lost to free from oppression not only those who disembarked onto American shores fleeing poverty or persecution in Europe but those others who were brought and bought against their will, captives, human cargo on the Transatlantic slave trade route.
The age old binary of victim and victor began to manifest as the story of humanity which Christians call His-story. At its heart stands the cross. Before it, the perpetual groaning of slavery.
Colson Whitehead was born on November 6, , in the United States. He is a well-recognized writer in the historical fiction and fantasy fiction genre. He won several national and international awards in his career in good reads nominated him for best fiction writer at the time. Your email address will not be published.
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