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This short novel published in 1825 is introduced by a fierce condemnation of the slave trade and a plea for its abolition. The novel illustrates the horror of trading human lives. It tells the nightmarish experience of two African youths. Their family is destroyed by successive waves of rogue elements who leave only death and sorrow in their wake. Treacherously caught, brutalized and eventually sold to American landowners, they experienced the full brunt of the latter's brutality on plantations that have become a living hell. Race relation have to change, the author says, and she shows how in the latter part of her novel.
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