Although this is a Canada Reads winner of 2009, I didn't give it my 3 or 4 Dunstars. I found it to be merely an interesting story, and especially appreciated the parts describing the Black Loyalists and the Sierra Leone colony.
Hill admits the details are not necessarily historically accurate, so that is a bit disappointing, but otherwise it is thoroughly researched. His characters are very strong and one certainly have no doubt of the horrors of slavery and just being black among whites. He leaves the writer with no doubt that African slaves felt just like we would had it all happened to us. The writing is good but I was conscious of it being too modern in idiom for a historical novel.
Other notable books on the subject of race, civil rights, and slavery:
Inheriting the Trade by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball
The Help **** by Kathryn Stockett
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