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The Cost of Sugar by Cynthia McLeod
2.0
Global Read 166- Suriname
I learned a lot about Suriname, and the book was certainly a page turner. The cost of sugar in this book is the brutality of slavery. And yet, the book was really only from the plantation owners' perspectives. There were enslaved people who were mentioned frequently and whom we were definitely supposed to care about, but we got nothing from their perspective. Maybe a few sentences, but by and large the characters who were enslaved loved the protagonists of the book and only existed to reflect on and deepen the white plantation owner characters.
I learned a lot about Suriname, and the book was certainly a page turner. The cost of sugar in this book is the brutality of slavery. And yet, the book was really only from the plantation owners' perspectives. There were enslaved people who were mentioned frequently and whom we were definitely supposed to care about, but we got nothing from their perspective. Maybe a few sentences, but by and large the characters who were enslaved loved the protagonists of the book and only existed to reflect on and deepen the white plantation owner characters.