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It includes an image of an idyllic-looking path through bright green foliage that leads to a slave castle in Cape Coast, Ghana.

The point was driven home for me by a scene in Percival Everett’s timely 2024 novel “James,” a rendition of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” told from the perspective of the title character, an escaped slave.

"It allows them to interpret the text in the spirit of the original. Without being a slave to the adaptation, it's allowed to be free," he says.

One witness told police that members of the homebase team were treated "like slaves", while another said they were made to sleep on a thin, old rug in the dining room.

The labourer Jin still bristles when he remembers how the other workers would call them slaves.