RESEARCH

In writing The Wisdom Of Rain, I consulted numerous books, scholarly articles, visited museums, and drew from my own experience of growing up on a sugar plantation on Demerara.

Here are just a few of the sources from which I took inspiration:

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1 / Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

Trevor Burnard - The University of North Carolina Press

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2 / Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

David Eltis and David Richardson - Yale University Press

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3 / Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

David B. Davis - Oxford University Press

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4 / The International Slavery Museum

Liverpool, England

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5 / National Museum of African American History & Culture

Washington DC, USA

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6 / Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823

Emilia Viotti da Costa - Oxford University Press

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