Paddy recommended this; I didn’t like it at first, but enjoyed it more and more as it progressed.
It is a semi-fictionalised biography of Sarah Grimke and her sister Nina, who were pioneers of anti-slavery and almost by accident feminism – a woman can’t speak against slavery if she has no voice – in 19th C USA.
There is a parallel story of Handful, the slave girl who is given to Sarah on her 11th birthday and they grow old often not together but in parallel, both have difficult mothers and pretty tough lives.
There is a lot of actual history buried in what I assumed was fiction. I am not doing it justice; it is a very good book.
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