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David

von Ray Robertson

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Born a slave in 1847 but raised a free man in the African-American settlement near Chatham, Ontario, David King's life has been one long act of rebellion against the man who freed him: the Reverend William King. Eschewing his role as Reverend King's pastoral successor, David has opted instead to run an illegal after-hours tavern and pick up extra money by grave-robbing. Then his benefactor dies and David must search his soul.… (mehr)
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I'd been looking forward to reading this for the decade that I'd had the beautiful hardcover copy on my shelves. It was a beauty to hold and behold and it promised history of one of my favourite kinds: that of the Talbot Settlement in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It's where I grew up (where the main street of every town for a couple of hundred miles is Talbot Street); it's where most of my genealogical research takes me, and I had somehow hoped to atone for not appreciating (I mean, REALLY not appreciating) at the time the local history class that our teacher had developed for our grade 10 curriculum.

Sadly, the settlement had only a bit part and the plot seemed to go nowhere. ( )
  ParadisePorch | Dec 21, 2020 |
Fascinating character study of free black man, David King, living in Buxton, Canada. David is smart, angry, and articulate. He struggles to throw off his Christian upbringing and find a new way. Mature content. This is a bad review (no time!) for a very good book! ( )
  mjspear | Jun 9, 2014 |
Sometimes you read a novel that you've been resisting and it turns out to be so much more rewarding than you ever imagined. There can be any number of reasons you don't want to read it: too many people are talking about it or too few are, the cover doesn't appeal to you (and you think that this must be a reflection of the contents), you feel like you've read all you can read on the topic or it doesn't interest you, you're not in the right mood or you're just plain feeling contrary. But when you finally open the pages of the book, you find beauty and erudition and you can't even remember what slowed you down in the first place. This was definitely true for me of Ray Robertson's novel, David.

David King was born a slave but freed early in his life by the Reverend William King, a man committed to creating the Elgin Settlement in Canada, a thriving community of freed black families in Ontario started in the mid 1800s. David doesn't remember life as a slave; his memory starts in Canada as a free child living with his mother. He is an incredibly intelligent man and his aptitude was obvious early on in his schooling as he was groomed to dedicate his life to God and the Reverend's philosophies of life. But David examined his life and rejected the path his mother and the Reverend had prepared for him, rebelling against his expected life and choosing instead to live in the nearby town of Chatham with a white, German, former prostitute, run an after hours bar, and rob graves.

The novel opens with David learning of the death of the Reverend King. The loss of this man who played such an enormous role in his own early life causes David to reflect on the past and how he ended up where he is now, his own man, making his own choices. David is multi-faceted and intelligent and he presents such a curious and unusual character, moral and principled as defined by his own code, unwilling to live by the Reverend King's dictates where they conflict with his own. And if you think that David's choice of occupation means he is somehow of a lower sort, this is definitely untrue. He is thoughtful and erudite and determined to be in control of his own destiny. Reverend King might have freed David from physical slavery but his good intentions still did not allow David the true freedom to choose his own path, thereby making a breech inevitable.

Robertson has created a masterfully and meticulously written novel that not only brings up issues of race and the shame of our history, but also what we do and don't owe to others for their roles in our lives. The narrative goes back and forth in time as David meanders through his memories but this non-chronological jumping is easy to follow and to assemble into a coherent story. The history contained in this slight book is amazing but it never overwhelms the story itself or the reader. This is a challenging, vivid, and rewarding novel, a small gem for sure. ( )
  whitreidtan | Aug 4, 2013 |
A good read by an author I hadn't heard of three weeks ago. I'm not sure I like David or agree with the things he does. But the story is very well written and encloses a world I wouldn't mind visiting. ( )
  charlie68 | Jun 16, 2013 |
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Born a slave in 1847 but raised a free man in the African-American settlement near Chatham, Ontario, David King's life has been one long act of rebellion against the man who freed him: the Reverend William King. Eschewing his role as Reverend King's pastoral successor, David has opted instead to run an illegal after-hours tavern and pick up extra money by grave-robbing. Then his benefactor dies and David must search his soul.

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