Best Books by Black Women
130+ Books by Black Women That Should Be Essential Reading For Everyone
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In Esi Edugyan's imaginative and unexpected novel Washington Black, an 11-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation is assigned to become his master's brother's manservant, and though George Washington Black, or "Wash," fears for the worst, the two become close companions, eventually fleeing up the eastern coast of America together in order to save Wash from a bounty hunter.