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The hell of the antebellum South: Let Us Descend, by Jesmyn Ward, reviewed

Teenage Annis and her enslaved mother endure beatings and rape as they are marched in chains to New Orleans to be sold to the latest brutal plantation owner

Jesmyn Ward. [Alamy]
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    Jesmyn Ward

    Bloomsbury, pp. 320, £18

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