Blue-eyed Slave

Come join us as Bird Jones and Marshall Highet discuss the writing of their book Blue-Eyed Slave.

It is 1764 in Charles Town, South Carolina, and Harry’s School for enslaved children has been in full swing for twenty years, despite the Negro Act of 1740. An enslaved person himself, Harry finds an unlikely ally in Hannah, a young Jewish girl from town. With relentless attention to historical accuracy, Blue-Eyed Slave levels an unflinching gaze at the cruelties of enslavement and shows that although human cruelty may be universal, the same is true for kindness and bravery.