Read Washington Black by Esi Edugyan, which I found out about from Disney+ of all places because the TV series adaptation is there. It’s an interesting adventure story and exploration of identity, slavery, and parenthood - our hero is a young slave boy from Barbados who is adopted and educated by Titch, an absent-minded English amateur scientist whom he ends up following to Virginia and the Arctic, before moving to Nova Scotia when he is abandoned. Recommended.
