Black Washington. by Esi Edugyan adult non-fiction but also a sinister voice

but also a sinister voice from a past she does not remember

heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire

Believing he’s destined to rule Skaland as king

The woman who's off-limits to him

Black Washington. by Esi Edugyan adult non-fiction but also a sinister voiceEleven year old George Washington Blackor Washa field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his masters brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity