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Forty Acres
by Dwayne Alexander Smith
I won this book through a Goodreads giveaway.
This book disturbed me... A LOT. Up and coming AA lawyer, Martin Grey, who is in a partnership with a white attorney, defeats the local F Lee Bailey of layers- Damon Darrell in a trial. Damon and his wife begin to friend Martin and his wife, inviting them to dinners, etc. When they get there, they see that everyone looks like them. Everyone at all of the get togethers is also black.
Damon is close with a quartet of successful business men in the region. They go on weekend getaways, while their wives stay at home. These are suppose to be rafting adventures. Martin is invited to participate.
He goes to the first one and sees that this is anything but an outdoor adventure. They have been invited to Dr Kasim's lair- 40 Acres. Martin quickly notices that all of the workers there are white, they won't take tips, and are treated horribly.
As the story goes on, he figures out this is a slavery plantation, but with white people- white people who are direct descendants of colonial slave owners, as the slaves. There is a mine the slaves are forced to worked in as busy work as there really isn't much gold to mine. But it is back breaking, menial labor.
Martin's conscience can't deal with this and he plots on how he is going to alert the outside world, as there is no contact with the outside world while they are. No computers, phone, etc.
This book disturbed me... A LOT. Up and coming AA lawyer, Martin Grey, who is in a partnership with a white attorney, defeats the local F Lee Bailey of layers- Damon Darrell in a trial. Damon and his wife begin to friend Martin and his wife, inviting them to dinners, etc. When they get there, they see that everyone looks like them. Everyone at all of the get togethers is also black.
Damon is close with a quartet of successful business men in the region. They go on weekend getaways, while their wives stay at home. These are suppose to be rafting adventures. Martin is invited to participate.
He goes to the first one and sees that this is anything but an outdoor adventure. They have been invited to Dr Kasim's lair- 40 Acres. Martin quickly notices that all of the workers there are white, they won't take tips, and are treated horribly.
As the story goes on, he figures out this is a slavery plantation, but with white people- white people who are direct descendants of colonial slave owners, as the slaves. There is a mine the slaves are forced to worked in as busy work as there really isn't much gold to mine. But it is back breaking, menial labor.
Martin's conscience can't deal with this and he plots on how he is going to alert the outside world, as there is no contact with the outside world while they are. No computers, phone, etc.