Excellent book. Read it carefully and think.

There's not really any “science” in this fiction, just a literary device whereby the Black protagonist keeps getting carried back to a slave plantation from modern times. (Not a criticism, just don’t expect SciFi, but do read it anyway).

This device allows the protagonist to see the situation through modern eyes.

Enslavement is shown at the high, horrifying level of what it is like to be enslaved or slaver as the white protagonist shows some sympathy as a youth but grows into his father's attitudes as he is prepared to take over the plantation.

But it is also shown at the more detailed levels of how the players are partly aware of their situations but also so immersed in them that their questioning is submerged much of the time.

I’m going to read it again soon.

There’s a readers’ guide in the last few pages but I didn’t think some retired white professor, specializing in SciFi, had anything whatsoever to add to reading the book itself.