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Everfair, Nisi Shawl

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Everfair

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Nisi Shawl

Everfair explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had adopted steam technology as their own. In author Nisi Shawl's vision, Fabian socialists from Great Britain join forces with African American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo's "owner," King Leopold II. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for narrative populations of the Congo as well as former slaves returning from America and other places where African natives and their descendants were being mistreated. The work of keeping this land their own is near impossible, and tragedy is unavoidable. Yet the citizens of Everfair are determined, and even try their hand at the rewarding tasks of governance, invention . . . and romance

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