"Studying slavery and studying this history is just a continual lesson in people's capacity for great evil."įor the full interview with Yaa Gyasi on "Homegoing," use the audio player above. "There really isn't a way to write a book about slavery and its lasting impact and not write about suffering, and not point a light at all of the different ways that people suffered," Gyasi said. Through the stories of each family member, Homegoing portrays the legacy of slavery that lingers for both the perpetrators and the enslaved, as well as the impact of institutional racism on the. Effia’s brother, Fiifi, and the chief of her village, Abeeku Badu, welcome doing business with the British as it will bring wealth to their people. Homegoing is Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi’s 2016 historical fiction novel spanning seven generations of two families linked by one person. These parallels lines, of the British men's local wives and of their captives, winds through "Homegoing."Īs Gyasi leaps from generation to generation, she crafts tales of perseverance, hope and despair in the face of a lost family tree and a violent history. However, Homegoing shows how colonization and slavery indubitably bring harm to everyone involved. Gyasi was "struck with these mixed emotions of rage and grief and a deep sadness to think about the fact that there were people that were kept in these dungeons for months at a time, waiting for this uncertain future." After months in the overcrowded dungeons, many were packed onto ships in deplorable conditions, bound for the Caribbean or the U.S. "I took the tour and the guide started to talk with us about how the British soldiers who lived and worked in the castle during this time would sometimes marry the local women - and then he took us to down to the dungeons."
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