Desa Rose: the power of a narrator

So far in the novel the narrator is a man that one would typically think would be the villain of a story like this.  I find it interesting how different a novel can turn out based on who is narrating it.  Nehemiah is a white man who's only real concern involving race if finding a good story to print.  He tries to find out about slave uprisings before they happen and write about them.  This kind of selfishness especially around race is a characteristic one finds in a bad guy.  If the story was told through the eyes of Dessa Rose there would be so much more insight and emotion into the story.  Nehemiah is a man all about the facts and while there are hints of perhaps foreshadowing toward him truly liking Dessa Rose, he needs her for nothing more than her knowledge about the leaders of the uprising.  This novel is like a mystery slowly reviling itself.  If it were told though Dessa Rose, it would be more of an action story as we would know first hand of the uprisings and would be on the edge of our seats hoping she gets out of her locks and chains.  All the same story with the same information, when told through different narrators can change the whole thing.