![]() ![]() ANDERSON: What these, his masters are actually doing is trying to determine whether an African youth has the same capacities for intelligent and intellectual pursuit as a white child. And only slowly does he start to realize that in fact he is part of this insidious experiment and has always been.ĬHIDEYA: When you say insidious experiment, what does he face? ![]() Latin, Greek, music, which he excels at he loves the violin. So he is therefore given this classical education. He is not told of many of the things that go on around him. ![]() Because part of the experiment is that he is not told of all the circumstances of the world at that period. He is himself enslaved, although he actually does not know this for most of his childhood. ![]() ANDERSON (Author): Well, he is the son of an African slave. When Farai Chideya spoke with him, she asked him to describe Octavian. The book title is "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation." It won the 2006 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Anderson's latest novel takes on these questions against the backdrop of the Revolutionary War. Who's a patriot and who is honest, and when? M.T. ![]()
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