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Reviewed by Divine Zape for Readers' Favorite
In A Savage Nation by Leon Harris, a brutal alternate history inverts the transatlantic slave trade into a horrifying mirror. It is a world where African empires are advanced, and Europe has reverted to a world of primitivity. The story introduces the “Great Harvest,” which is the systematic enslavement and kidnapping of pale-skinned “livestock” by what is now known as the Unified African Hegemony. General Okoro’s first conquest initiates a dark experience that will endure for generations. Most telling are characters like Zola, whose mission is to break the unclean and to make them walk across gangplanks with nothing but their chains. Mwamba, a plantation owner from Congo, is a morally decayed character who intends to breed a secret lineage of mixed-race heirs. And then there is the rebellion. Is there any force that can stop slavery in this alternate world?
Leon Harris’ spellbinding story moves from the iron holds of dreadnoughts to a biometric police state characterized by its digital shackles. The pacing is fast, and the horror itself makes it hard to stop reading. I was racing through the pages, feeling as though I was reliving the slavery that happened 400 years ago. A Savage Nation is a bold story that confronts history unapologetically and turns the tables, weaponizing the rhetoric of civilization against the conquerors and exposing the dehumanizing consequences of slavery with clinical details. The speculative elements of this story, like the dreadnoughts that defy gravity and the utopia hidden in the ruins of the Americas, were well-executed. The details of the brutality can be numbing, but this book forces you not to look away. It is lyrical in its style and gripping in the events it describes.
