Literary Fiction
A fugitive slave's harrowing journey through pre-Civil War America, exploring racial identity and freedom.
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A fugitive slave's harrowing journey through pre-Civil War America, exploring racial identity and freedom.
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While historical texts and documents are the tools providing scholars access to the horrors of ante-bellum slavery, Walk Through Darkness transforms a painful glimpse into our American past into a veritable first-person, right-now life experience. Tumbling backwards in time, the overwhelming abuse, despair, and harsh injustice endured by the fugitive slave become the anguish of our own personal reality. Through the skill and empathy of author David Anthony Durham, the results of the skewed sense
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Sexual content
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Moderate explicit sexual content; some scenes are on-page and recurring.
Violence & gore
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Extreme graphic violence; frequent torture, beatings, and murder depicted.
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No occult or magical themes present.
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Major focus on racial identity, slavery, freedom, and equality in pre-Civil War America.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Extreme focus on slavery, abuse, and systemic suffering; central to the narrative.
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