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Dubaku is a dark historical fantasy novella centered on slavery, revenge, and supernatural horror set during the transatlantic slave trade. While the story engages with serious historical injustice and features a protagonist with sympathetic motivations, it contains graphic violence, supernatural horror elements, and mature themes of cruelty and death that make it unsuitable for younger readers. The supernatural vengeance plot and disturbing imagery push this toward an older teen audience.
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In 1760 somewhere near the Bight Of Benin, an African shaman belonging to an obscure interior tribe surrenders himself willingly to an English slaving expedition. This man, Dubaku, has come in search of his wife, abducted and sold to another party of whites. Not knowing one ship from another, Dubaku boards the slaver h... In 1760 somewhere near the Bight Of Benin, an African shaman belonging to an obscure interior tribe surrenders himself willingly to an English slaving expedition. This man, Dubaku, has come in search of his wife, abducted and sold to another party of whites. Not knowing one ship from another, Dubaku boards the slaver hoping to find her. The captain, a cruel and careless man named Bryce, mistrusts him immediately, and when a rampant sickness takes its toll on the superstitious crew and their human cargo midway through the voyage to Jamaica, Bryce decides to offer up Dubaku as their Jonah. After a violent squall drowns the entire compliment of would-be slaves, Dubaku calls upon dark and terrible powers to enact a fitting vengeance on Captain Bryce and his men.
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ISBN 9781615720248 · Damnation Books