Research

Research for The Wisdom Of Rain

In writing The Wisdom Of Rain, I consulted many books, scholarly articles, visited museums, and drew from my own experience of growing up on a sugar plantation on Demerara. Below are some of the sources from which I drew inspiration:

• Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823; Emilia Viotti da Costa – Oxford University Press
• Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World; Trevor Burnard – The University of North Carolina Press
• Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: David Eltis and David Richardson – Yale University Press
• Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World; David B. Davis – Oxford University Press
• The International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, England
• National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington, DC, U.S.A.

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