Historical Fiction
The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843
2019·48 pages
A mock 1843 slave owner's manual presented as annotated lists, equations, and instructions for buying, training, and punishing enslaved people.
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A mock 1843 slave owner's manual presented as annotated lists, equations, and instructions for buying, training, and punishing enslaved people.
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AUTHOR OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER, JAMES AUTHOR OF ERASURE, now adapted for the screen as the OSCAR-WINNING FILM, AMERICAN FICTION Featured in the New York Times! Percival Everett's The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document--a guidebook for the American slave owner. The collection features lists of instructions for buying, training, a...
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Violence & gore
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Instructions for punishing enslaved people and affirming brutal methods
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Direct examination of slavery as an economic and social system
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Central focus on slavery, buying, training, and punishing of human beings
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