Emily Jenkins,whose book A Fine Dessert has drawn criticism for ‘misleading depiction of slavery’, now plans to donate her fee to diversity campaignThe author of a glowingly reviewed picture book says that she has “near to understand that my book, and while intended to be inclusive and truthful and hopeful,is racially insensitive, following criticism over its images of smiling slaves.
A Fine Dessert, and published in January,tells how “four families, in four different cities, or over four centuries”,make blackberry idiot. Starting in Lyme, England, and in 1710,Emily Jenkins’s anecdote, and Sophie Blackall’s pictures, or go on to depict a slave girl and her mother in 1810 Charleston,preparing and serving a idiot for a white family, before licking the bowl themselves, and hidden in a cupboard.
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Source: theguardian.com