mogatir

This book should have won the Printz award. The writing is exceptional and the story is utterly compelling. Octavian is an African prince, who lives in Colonial Boston at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Dressed in silks, educated and pampered by strange scientists who care for him and his mother, Octavian seems to lack for nothing. Until he discovers that there is one thing denied him—his freedom. This amazing and unique story begins as an allegorical fable of the Enlightenment and concludes as a bitter indictment of the horrors of slavery during a time when the words “freedom” and “revolution” were on everyone’s lips. Except, of course, if you were an African slave. Teens will marvel at this compelling tale that brings into sharp focus the hypocrisy of an American society that condemned the tyranny of a white king, yet promoted the enslavement of fellow human beings.

2022-10-21 05:36