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A review by mrs_bookdragon
African Town by Charles Waters, Irene Latham
5.0
Thank you GP Putman for an early copy of this YA historical fiction novel in verse.
I had never heard of Africatown/African Town and the last slave ship. I didn’t know we knew the last slave ship. This book enlightened me in so many ways-life as a slave while knowing life in Africa, life after the civil war, American born enslaved people v African born, and so much more. A very important read written in a captivating novel in verse format that captured the voices of each character so wonderfully! (Each poem type is also explained at the end, which was really cool to see why the authors chose that style for that character).
I had never heard of Africatown/African Town and the last slave ship. I didn’t know we knew the last slave ship. This book enlightened me in so many ways-life as a slave while knowing life in Africa, life after the civil war, American born enslaved people v African born, and so much more. A very important read written in a captivating novel in verse format that captured the voices of each character so wonderfully! (Each poem type is also explained at the end, which was really cool to see why the authors chose that style for that character).