Raines, an environmental journalist with knowledge of Alabama’s swamps, deltas and hideaways, writes about one of the first landscapes the enslaved encountered in the swamps of Alabama. Often the Americans made fun of the Africans, even one hundred years later.”įrom shell-paved roads to groves of magnolias and orange trees, one of the strengths of the book is the well-described landscape. They tried to talk to the American-born Black people they encountered on the plantations, but couldn’t bridge the language gap. “Everyone and everything seemed so strange to the Africans. Raines’ retelling spends time humanizing people that were often seen as outliers because of their facial tattoos and other proclivities that marked them as being “other” in a world that struggled with anything beyond nuance.
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