Day of Tears by Julius LesterMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
How this book is not required reading is beyond me. I'm mad that I didn't read it until my late 20s, though I'm grateful to have experienced it at all. Day of Tears is part historical fiction, part theatrical biography. Narrated by a cast of (mostly fictional) characters and centered on the largest (real life) slave auction in history, plus the consequential events of those days, it forces readers to grapple with the reality of slave ownership, the duplicitous relationships and the lies people told themselves and others to survive.
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