Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Historical and human insights from bygone American history

This is a well researched historical novel written by the great-great-great-great grand daughter of a former Louisiana slave. The journey goes through the generations of negro and mulatto women who do what they have to do to survive and keep their families together. Most of the children of these women were illegitimate offspring of the white men who were their masters). The author makes you feel the burdens the slave women had to endure and give the reader insights into the hypocrisy of these slave owners.It was a difficult time and place where those of color were made to feel inferior and often did not mind that their children of mixed blood would be less black and perhaps have a better chance at life because of their color.I highly recommend CANE RIVER.