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Al jaren schrijf ik recensies voor een boekenwebsite. Dat gaat in het Engels vandaar dat de volgende tekst ook in die taal is. It was after a summer of Black Lives Matters protests all over the world in the midst of a pandemic that I was given the opportunity to review Elisabeth Samson, Forbidden Bride Based on the true story of the first black woman in 18th century Suriname to get legal permission to marry white. by C V. Hamilton Surinam or in Dutch Suriname was a Dutch colony in the north of South America. While in European Holland slavery was outlawed and apparently there was not a problem when people of different skincolours wanted to marry (The country had not that long ago fought a war of independence over freedom of religion), the colony was ruled under a different set of rules. Those rules were stipulated by the first governor and it felt to me like the whole area was ruled like it was a company. One of those rules stipulated...

Danielle Bennett, pictured with children in Kandahar, began the US visa process with Karim, an Afghan interpreter, just after they became engaged in 2011.   When Mary Ann Rollins was deployed to Afghanistan with the Utah National Guard, she was prepared for bullets, bombs, danger and even death – but not love. During the months spent on tiny bases in the forested and often deadly mountains of eastern Afghanistan, she became close friends with Zia, an Afghan interpreter who regularly put himself in harm's way to save others, who always had time for local children and a kind word for anyone who was down. Rollins' tour ended in 2009, but her close friendship with Zia continued over Skype and email – and grew into something more. Two years after leaving Afghanistan in uniform she was back as a civilian to get married. read the rest of the article here in the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/29/afghan-interpreters-us-p...