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Leaving everything he knows behind him, and evading patrollers and dogs to head north and find freedom, in the midst of a dismal swamp Cyrus receives the revelation that Abednego is his true North Star, and, impossible though it seems, he determines to find and rescue his lost lover from slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen years in the writing, NAACP Image Award nominee John R Gordon's \u003cem\u003eDrapetomania\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic and exciting tale of black freedom, uprising, and a radical representation of romantic love between black men in slavery times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe've seen the African-American slave narrative told from many perspectives, but in this groundbreaking novel, Gordon becomes the first to explore this experience through the eyes of a gay slave. The result is an all-out masterpiece. 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