This is about the fourth time I've read it. It's also about the third time I've bought it; the first time I read it in the library, and the other two times I ended up giving the book away, once to a young woman who worked in a local coffee shop and who was fascinated by my description of it. It's not only an exploration of the horror of slavery, but of its psychology and the effects that it had on both the slaves and the slaver owners. A masterpiece.