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of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document—a guidebook for the American slave owner.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.
- ISBN13 9781597096287
- Publish Date 28 February 2019 (first published 15 January 2019)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Red Hen Press
- Edition Annotated edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 48
- Language English