Horse: A Novel

We suffered enough on account of slavery already. I don’t plan on laying my life down to end it. You folk who made this mess, I reckon you owe us to clean it up.”

“Not much for Scripture, myself. Prefer the pagans. The Greeks and Romans have some wonderful tales with a good deal more lovemaking than the Hebrews.

Men with no one to look down upon except the enslaved. Men with nothing to lose. Men to fear.