![]() Where human beings were treated as anything but, because of the colour their skin. Where families were torn apart without a second thought. We are taken back to a time when slavery was the norm. It had tried to make her gaze upon her reflection and judge what she saw as repulsive.” It had tried to make her bitter about herself. “The world tried to make her feel some other way, though. ![]() I don’t think I’ll ever be able to express in words the kind of emotions I felt while reading this book. The Prophets must be one of the most beautifully written, but absolutely heartbreaking books I have ever read. Until another slave starts preaching from the Bible and threatens them and their existence and causes some of the other slaves to turn on them. ![]() A space where they could be themselves and with each other. The barn was not only a place they cleaned and tended to the animals. ![]() That was the way it was from the beginning.’ On a plantation in the Deep South, these two young enslaved men find comfort in each other. ‘Isaiah was Samuel’s and Samuel was Isaiah’s. ![]() “Samuel and Isaiah were, after all, boys, oftentimes helpful ones who were one bluster and the other tranquil, but never callous or aloof.” Robert Jones Jr, The Prophets ![]()
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