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"Joy is a mighty muscle!" is the novel's exuberant opening line as M'nalo rows toward freedom and a fate he could never have contemplated.
Engrossing, captivating and heartwrenching. I highly recommend Web of Freedom.
Kelvin Christopher James brings the world of 19th century slavery alive and captured my imagination from the first page. The characters are complex, intriguing and believable and descriptions are consistently rich and vivid. Web of Freedom is a page-turner, an immensely readable, intricate story of adventure, mystery, suspense, jealousy, revenge, longing, wisdom and love. I could not put this book down and did not want it to end!
Engrossing, captivating and heartwrenching. I highly recommend Web of Freedom.
Kelvin Christopher James brings the world of 19th century slavery alive and captured my imagination from the first page. The characters are complex, intriguing and believable and descriptions are consistently rich and vivid. Web of Freedom is a page-turner, an immensely readable, intricate story of adventure, mystery, suspense, jealousy, revenge, longing, wisdom and love. I could not put this book down and did not want it to end!
Overview
Set in the early 19th century and reminiscent of the grand storytelling of Alexandre Dumas, Web of Freedom recounts the adventures of prince M'nalo Fanta Bembo, who escapes from a slave ship that has transported him from his native Africa. Living alone on a remote Caribbean island and surviving on his wits and knowledge of sorcery and botany, he is discovered by native forest people and treated as an honored Savage. Yet following his destiny, he strikes out on his own path and is eventually rescued from a hurricane by buccaneers. The pirate ship's captain, addicted to opium, is yet a man of high principles, and for M'nalo's safety, leaves him on his brother's sugar plantation, where the lives and loves of the slavers and