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  • Thanks! Added to the reading list.

    I read “The Colour Purple” at around 14 and it had a big impact on me. Lots of opportunities to discuss race, slavery, inequality in general.

    It’s very welcoming to see LGBTQ+ characters, especially with the similarities of their liberation with non-white people.

    I also read Uncle Toms Cabin around the same age which I found much harder to connect with but others in my class found that very impactful.

    Good choice; this book seems to have had had a very positive impact on slavery and the dehumanisation of black people.

    Despite being the root cause of a few stereotypes of black people, it is notable that the black people in the novel actually have character development throughout that breaks at least some of those stereotypes.

    (Posted from an alt. account because of federation issues.)