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DEBUT Redmond contemplates the meaning of freedom in this unflinching and nuanced alternative history set in 1710 on a North Carolina plantation. After Willie's failed attempt to escape enslavement on the plantation, his beloved Gertie reveals that she is pregnant with his child. Willie is elated at the prospect of being a father but terrified at the life his offspring will be born into. However, Willie feels a twinge of hope for freedom when Rafazi, a Ghanaian man enslaved on the pla...Log In or Sign Up to Read More