Skinfolk

Born into bondage but raised in power, Eli is seven years old when a plantation owner pulls him from his mother's arms and installs him in the main house. What follows is not rescue. It is construction - the slow, patient building of a weapon designed to control the people it came from. Taught to read, to calculate, to see human beings as numbers in a ledger, Eli becomes the most feared person on the property.
Not because he carries a whip. Because he doesn't need one. When he is ordered to publicly punish his own mother, something appears to break. He drops the whip. He weeps. He returns to the quarters and begins organizing a rebellion that will bring the plantation to its knees. But SKINFOLK is not a liberation story. It is the story of what happens when the oppressed inherits the system that made him - and finds that it fits.
A psychological thriller set in the antebellum South, SKINFOLK explores indoctrination, identity, and the terrifying question at the heart of every power structure: what does the revolution become when the revolutionary wants the throne?