To those looking for a great summer read...the novel #Drapetomania by #johnrgordon is for you! I guarantee you’ve never read anything like this before. “ A compelling, thrilling tale of love in slavery times. When house-servant Abednego is sold away south, his broken-hearted field-hand lover Cyrus snaps and flees the estate on which he has lived his entire life. Leaving everything he knows behind him, and evading patrollers and dogs to head north and find freedom, in the midst of a dismal swamp Cyrus receives the revelation that Abednego is his true North Star, and, impossible though it seems, he determines to find and rescue his lost lover from slavery. Ten years in the writing, NAACP Image Award nominee John R Gordon's Drapetomania is an epic and exciting tale of black freedom, uprising, and a radical representation of romantic love between black men in slavery times.” Hands down the best novel I’ve read in YEARS. #drapetomania #book #reading #novel #slavery #love #lgbt #history