Among other things, my time has been occupied of late by reading an advance of James Dawsey’s Masters and Savages and writing a treatment for him to sell the book as a possibility for adaptation to film. The book is a thriller set primarily on board a transport ship hauling “laborers” (technically distinct from but still little better than slaves) to the plantations started by the Confederados (Confederates who fled the American south post-Civil War to found a “new south”).
It’s a period of history we don’t see depicted much, and particularly in fiction (although James M. Dawsey also co-edited The Confederados
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