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In 'Freewater,' author Amina Luqman-Dawson uses fiction to illuminate a little-known part of Black h

Find a book excerpt from “Freewater” here.

We revisit Celeste Headlee’s conversation with Amina Luqman-Dawson about “Freewater,” her book for young adults.

The novel is a fictional account of a society founded by runaway slaves in the Great Dismal Swamp, which stretches between parts of Virginia and North Carolina. It originally aired in February.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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