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This is the only post on this book we are making so I'm gonna talk now about a couple different reasons why I liked this book. Dana was such a human character with human relationships and dropping her in the antebellum south provided so many opportunities to drive home how powerless she felt as an African-American woman. The intimate whipping scenes were disturbing, and give a slightly different perspective than reading it from a history book - the author uses fictional characters to show us a more nuanced sense of fear through Dana's eyes ¹ . Some other moments that come to mind are when Dana is forced to convince Alice to have sex with Rufus, communicating the intense feeling of powerlessness and dread slaves felt since there was absolutely no solution to the situation, only three different "poisons" to pick, and when Dana returns to an aging Tom Weylin with arrogance at first, before silencing herself and realizing that Tom didn't need physical strength himself...