![]() ![]() “In all the literature that I had read, there was no mention of blackness and queerness until about the Harlem Renaissance,” he told me. Part of what took so long, he said, was figuring out how to write a story about slavery which centered queer people. himself, who began writing the novel fully 14 years ago. ![]() The hope is hard won, not just by the characters, but by Robert Jones, Jr. ![]() Ultimately, queer love leads to persecution, but also to rebellion, and unexpected shards of hope. But other people on the plantation find Samuel and Isaiah’s love inspiring and comforting in the middle of the unrelenting aridity of slavery. The two men fall in love, and their relationship sparks ire from both their white oppressors and their Black peers. Its main characters are Samuel and Isaiah, two enslaved Black men who work together in the barn caring for the farm animals. The Prophets is set on a plantation in antebellum Mississippi. ![]()
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