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c2007., General, HarperCollins Call No: BLK Fic Hil Edition: Paperback ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle (a string of slaves), Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic Book of Negroes. This book, an actual document, provides a short but immensely revealing record of freed Loyalist slaves who requested permission to leave the US for resettlement in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all of its own. Aminata's eventual return to Sierra Leone, passing ships carrying thousands of slaves bound for America, is an engrossing account of an obscure but important chapter in history that saw 1,200 former slaves embark on a harrowing back-to-Africa odyssey."--HarperCollins Canada.
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c2014., Adult, Viking Call No: Fic Kid Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go beyond the record to flesh out the inner lives of all the characters, both real and imagined."--Publisher.
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2014., Adult, Penguin Audio Call No: CD Fic Kid Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go beyond the record to flesh out the inner lives of all the characters, both real and imagined."--Publisher.
![The invention of wings [CD] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT76334.JPG "The invention of wings [CD] : a novel")
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2007., W.W. Norton & Co. Call No: BLK Fic Hil Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2013., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic McC Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In his new novel, Colum McCann weaves together the stories of individual men and women from Newfoundland, Dublin and New York across two centuries. Their journeys are shaped by and reflect the progression of history.
