"In the brilliance of the Caribbean sunshine, those scraps of paper with perfect copperplate writing were lists with the age, sex, weight and (only sometimes) first names of the enslaved people hundreds of them."
"As the story unfolds, The Authenticator digs into questions of identity, race and ownership of the past. Who gets to claim history? How much of who we are is inherited, and how much is constructed?"
The Authenticator is set in Harford House and contrasts the lives of the landed gentry with the descendants of enslaved people. The story begins with characters Abi and Marva meeting Fen, who has inherited the house. As they explore the estate, discussions about ancestry evolve into deeper questions about identity and the emotional weight of history. The narrative challenges perceptions of ownership over the past and examines how much of identity is inherited versus constructed, particularly in the context of race and historical legacy.
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