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Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Adebimpe is ten, she is sold with her mother, Sanite, to plantation owner John du Marche. He soon renames her Ady but Sanite never lets her daughter forget who she really is - a person who can read and write and understand numbers. Most importantly, Sanite reminds Ady that she must never reveal these abilities to a white person, especially not her true name. Tasked with maintaining du Marche's home in vibrant New Orleans, Ady takes in the city...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A historical novel about a French botanist's search for a mysterious woman who escaped from slavery in Senegal"--
Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a woman's Maram. The key to this mysterious woman's identity is Adanson's unpublished memoir of the years he spent in Senegal, concealed in a secret...
Author
Publisher
ANTIBOOKCLUB
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For One Day of Freedom begins on the eve of the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, that heinous treaty (one among many of that pernicious and evil time in American history) passed by Congress that required enslaved people who had escaped to be returned to their "owners," even if found in a so-called free state. That same night, on the Windsor Plantation-"one of the largest in the Mississippi Delta"-Jubel, an enslaved person, prepares his...
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