A Chronicle of Resistance: Enslaved Trilogy and Companion Reader

WINNER of the International Impact Book Awards for Best Historical Non-Fiction book 2024

Overview

It is a chronicle of enslavement and resistance told in an exquisite blend of prose and poetic verse. Through the esthetic rhythms and rhymes of poetry, it chronicles the establishment and institutionalization of systemic racism. Each poem tells its own story, but each is also part of a bigger narrative. A story, within a story. 

A prelude to each poem sets the context and moves the story along. Some of these preludes describe the historical, cultural, societal, political or economic environment as well.

Enslaved, is not just poetry about the atrocities of African slavery and the horrible price humanity continues to pay for it. Neither is it just a story of racism, bigotry, discrimination or prejudice. It is a story about dominion, power and control. It plunges the depths of depravity humanity can sink to and the things they are willing to do to justify it all. It is also a story of hope, courage and optimism as can only be told through poetry. It powerfully tackles the subjects of racism, Shadeism (the discrimination against an individual based on their skin tone), the use of racist symbols and systemic racism in a time when the world is caught up in debate as to what all of that really means. It shows the birth of systemic racism and challenges readers to address it in whatever colour it rears its head.

Author Brian Sankarsingh

Product Information

• Publisher: Sankarsingh Gonsalves Productions
• Publication date: June 24 2024
• Language: English
• Print length: 604 pages
• ISBN-10: 1068883200
• ISBN-13: 978-1068883200
• Item weight: 1.27 kg
• Dimensions: 19.05 x 3.84 x 23.5 cm