Look To The Hills: The Diary of Lazette Moreau

This is the fictional diary of a young girl who is a slave girl in a house in France. Through a series of unfortunate events she ends up going to the New World (still as a slave), at a time of trouble between France and England and Native Americans and others.

It's a story that points up some of the many, many problems with the concept of slavery. It also shows how the Native Americans were mistreated by the British government, in particular, and by colonists. It brings up one of the earlier achievements in biological warfare, when blankets infected with smallpox germs were given to Native Americans on purpose so that they would sicken and die.

In other words, people reading this novel will get a good insight into some of the many, and most insidious forms of intolerance that have happened in the New World in particular.

As usual, there is an excellent historical information section provided, putting some of the events into perspective with other things going on in the world at the time.

This novel, as the others, is also written in a very believable, readable and interesting style. It's the type of book that you don't really want to put down until you've read "just a few more pages." Definitely worth getting.


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