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Speak Right On is a uniquely American love story, about a man who loved his family so much that he could not be stopped in his quest for freedom--not even by the US Supreme Court.
It is also an exceptional invocation of the soul of human dignity, represented in the character of a destitute, illiterate, enslaved man called Dred Scott;
As the author of a novel about Dred Scott, I am interested in conversations about race and social justice and politics--and how the three get scrambled together, in Dred’s time and in ours.
As a reader, I am interested in conversations about illiteracy and education. For my book, I was intrigued by the question of how an illiterate man’s voice reached the US Supreme Court.
Please join me as I blog about these and related topics. I will share how and why I arrived at the character of Dred Scott depicted in the book, and I will continue to draw comparisons between this time and his time. ~ Mary Neighbour