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Libertie
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Kaitlyn Greenidge

Jenny (Reading Envy)'s review

Feb 01, 2022

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bookshelves: read2022, january, hoopla, tournament-of-books, location-usa-ny, location-haiti, location-caribbean, around-the-usa, around-the-world, 20booksbyblackwomen

Libertie is being brought up in Brooklyn during Reconstruction by her physician mother to take on her work, but flees to Haiti with a brand new husband to try to follow her own path.

I learned some pieces of history I didn't know about previously like the 1863 draft riots and the attempts to relocate free Black people to Haiti, but I'm not sure the pieces all flowed together. The pacing is also quite slow, but I am not a frequent reader of historical fiction so this may not be my thing.

It is, however, one more from the Tournament of Books

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