Lorena Gale

"And in seventeen thirty-four a Negro slave set fire to the City of Montreal and was hanged... " With this bald statement of history as a basis, Lorena Gale constructs a vivid portrait of a time, when captive people had no say in the outcome of their lives. A rich, poetic evocation of a graceful yet cruel time-a time when "civilized" citizens still bought and sold slaves. This is a time when the thoughts and feelings of these captive people had...