The Sealey Challenge Day 16: In Canaan by Shane McCrae

A chapbook that beats emotion into the reader. While I can speak of form, I feel that to speak on topic too much is appropriation. I cannot judge the rape of slaves or the emotion behind killing slave babies or babies born of white masters' raping their slaves. Complex emotions and a tangled ideas would be part of a system of oppression that I will never be able to understand.

The use of backslashes and white space were very effective in increasing and decreasing speed, changing perspective, and pointing out each bit of horror.