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    SwetaKeppler: I guess I must be the only person who remembers this film starring John Travolta and Harry Belafonte: White Man's Burden (1995) More at IMDbPro ยป T... more »
    capnrob: Waldrop does a story on this very subject, too; I'm not a fan of "Ike at the Mike", compared to some of his others, but "The Lions Are Asleep This Nig... more »
    Grey_Area: Huge fan of Alternative History here, why? Oh, I dunno, "what if there was a reality where I wasn't such a useless dork" comes to mind, but I digress ... more »
    aixelsyd: I recall reading Doomsday book by Connie Willis, transpiring during the plague years and it motivated me to research the real events, and boy were tho... more »
    corpore-metal: As social commentary and satire it might be compelling but as allohistory it needs work. I'd argue that plague in the Middle Ages are insufficient to ... more »
    delRock: Only a bit tasteless... White people were being enslaved by Vikings and Turks for hundreds of years. The word slave comes from Slav (white people, bl... more »
    The Curse of Millhaven: Sadly, if she had actually included realistic elements that explained the development of Africa as the first world power rather than Europe, she would... more »
    ShamelessSingingRennie: Has anyone read Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes? It's another alternate history novel, though the main story stays in the 19th century. more »
  • #bookreview

    In the Alternate History of "Blonde Roots," Africans Enslave Europeans

    Doris is a young English peasant kidnapped by African slavers, who ship her across the Atlantic. So begins this action-packed, though uneven, tale of white slavery and black imperialism by Bernardine Evaristo. More »