The following text field will produce suggestions that follow it as you type.

the Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson Roanoke, VA, 1843: Annotated From Library John C. Calhoun
the Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson Roanoke, VA, 1843: Annotated From Library John C. Calhoun

the Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson Roanoke, VA, 1843: Annotated From Library John C. Calhoun in Bloomington, MN

Current price: $16.95
Loading Inventory...
Get it at Barnes and Noble

Size: Hardcover

Get it at Barnes and Noble
Percival Everett’s
The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun
, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document—a guidebook for the American slave owner. The collection features lists of instructions for buying, training, and punishing, equations for calculating present and future profits, and handwritten annotations affirming the brutal contents.
The Book of Training
lays bare the mechanics of the peculiar institution of slavery and challenges readers to place themselves in the uncomfortable vantage point of those who have bought and enslaved human beings.
Powered by Adeptmind