Enslaved Annis tells her story from the Carolina rice fields to the Louisiana sugar plantations.

'Let us descend, and enter his blind world' - Dante's Inferno

Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery. The novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.

Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the guide through this journey. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother.

Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. The novel is a story of rebirth and reclamation.

The novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the land—the forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South.