What a funny coincidence – I just came across a reference to that same "Ten Hills Farm" book yesterday! I hope it lives up to its promise.

It feels a little weird to say that I am enjoying a book about slavery close to home, but it is full of information I didn't know and that I would rather know than not, well structured and presented, generally devastating but essential to an accurate picture of New England, and only occasionally do I think the prose hopped the gap between scene-setting and punchy.