A review by readsbysalima
Blanc autour by Wilfrid Lupano

5.0

Sharp and straight illustrations for this historical fiction based on a true story. The true story of an all girls' school in Canterbury, state of Connecticut in 1832. A place where all went to hell when one outrageous idea met another : opening a girls' school, AND enrolling Black girls In the mind of the White people in this state, there is the remembrance of Nat Turner, this educated slave who organised a rebellion violently shut down a year earlier. So the equation is clear : educated Black person = rebellion. With no pathos, and structured story, we follow the message and the fight of Prudence Crandall for equality of genre and race.