Monica Edinger
Autore di Africa Is My Home: A Child of the Amistad
Opere di Monica Edinger
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Luogo di residenza
- Sierra Leone
USA - Attività lavorative
- elementary school teacher
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The author’s note calls this a novel. Yes it is based on Margru’s own writings, documents, images and has so much information that I have placed it in our nonfiction section.
I found this book to be really fascinating. Edinger and Younge did a great job of taking Equiano's words and shifting them into poetry. It makes the narrative stand out in new ways, and possibly for many, makes it a bit more digestible. Additionally, the insert historical sidenotes are helpful in allowing readers to understand the full context. Well worth the read.
As the description notes, this is a fictionalized memory book of a real-life figure. Sarah Margru Kinson was only nine years old when she was kidnapped from her beloved home in Africa and taken by force to Cuba. She was bundled in the holding cargo with fifty two others, including three children.
They were sold in Cuba and revolted and overtook the ship. Captured and sent to trial for possible punishment of those who took the Africans from their homeland and forced them into labor, the trial went to the Supreme Court where it was ruled they were entitled to be returned to Africa.
This is the story of Sarah, the terrors, the joys, the different cultures she grew to know. Stunningly illustrated, this is a book I will keep and store with other favorite illustrated books.… (altro)
They were sold in Cuba and revolted and overtook the ship. Captured and sent to trial for possible punishment of those who took the Africans from their homeland and forced them into labor, the trial went to the Supreme Court where it was ruled they were entitled to be returned to Africa.
This is the story of Sarah, the terrors, the joys, the different cultures she grew to know. Stunningly illustrated, this is a book I will keep and store with other favorite illustrated books.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 9
- Utenti
- 264
- Popolarità
- #87,286
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 13
verse poetic form. Combining the autobiography of this formerly enslaved man who rose to be one of England's
foremost abolitionists with explanatory sidebars puts Equiano's story in the context of historic events.