Review: A powerful story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2013
A powerful story about slavery and the effects it had on all connected, from the trees that bore silent evidence of humanity's ugliest nature to the man unable to reconcile himself to the idea that the slaves are beyond salvation to the unfortunate masses bound in perpetual servitude by simple virtue of their race.Though the tone is somber, even painful, a dry, dark humor appears in several instances, such as the observation of what the slaves occasionally did to Abigail's dinner. I very much enjoyed the quality of the writing, and the character development was superb and really allowed me to understand them beyond the Master/Slave/Wife titles. Great book!