7/2/2023 0 Comments Run For It by Marcelo d'SaleteD’Salete depicts their determination with a few lines and well-placed shading, though the women lack the same visual individuality that male characters have. This tension between safety and freedom underscores the decision each character eventually makes. Her lover Valu, who works in the fields, desperately longs for escape. A young woman, Nana, is hesitant to leave the relative comfort of the plantation kitchen. With a dry-brush effect, the art conveys the dark, foreboding danger of the jungles surrounding the plantations and the energy and moods of the men and women who react to their enslavement in various ways. First published in 2015 in D’Salete’s native Brazil, this striking graphic novel exposes the brutality of slavery on that country’s sugarcane plantations via five stories of slaves who attempted escape.
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