The Book of Training By Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843
by Percival Everett
Publication Date: Oct 09, 2018
List Price: $16.95
Format: Paperback, 60 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781597096287
Imprint: Red Hen Press
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Parent Company: Red Hen Press
Paperback Description:
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of Roanoke VA 1843, Annotated, from the library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document?a guidebook for the American slave owner.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, and punishing, equations for calculating present and future profits, and handwritten annotations affirming the brutal contents. A Book of Training lays bare the mechanics of the peculiar institution of slavery and challenges readers to place themselves in the uncomfortable vantage point of those who have bought and enslaved human beings.
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of Roanoke VA 1843, Annotated, from the library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document?a guidebook for the American slave owner.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, and punishing, equations for calculating present and future profits, and handwritten annotations affirming the brutal contents. A Book of Training lays bare the mechanics of the peculiar institution of slavery and challenges readers to place themselves in the uncomfortable vantage point of those who have bought and enslaved human beings.
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