Kind One

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author would like to acknowledge the particular inspiration he derived from reading Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, by Harriet A. Jacobs; The Known World (not limited to but in particular its eleventh page), by Edward P. Jones; The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by Amos Tutuola; and Marguerite Yourcenar’s “Reflections on the Composition” of Memoirs of Hadrian. He would also like to note that the long-germinating seed for this novel of revolt was planted in 1990 in a seminar he took with Professor Richard Blackett at Indiana University, which addressed, among other slavery-related subjects, the causes and consequences of the Haitian Revolution.

Crucial support in the writing of Kind One was received from the division of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Denver.