Freedom Business: Including A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa - Rilegato

Nelson, Marilyn

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ISBN 10: 1932425578 ISBN 13: 9781932425574

Casa editrice: Front Street, 2008

Riassunto

Told through verse, this true narrative of a slave from Africa, who was the first man to document his capture and life as an American slave, details how he worked through a lifetime of slavery to buy not only his own freedom, but also the freedom of his wife and children.

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Recensione:

* "It's surprising that this essential part of American biography and history isn't more widely known." --Booklist, starred review

* "An astonishing, heartbreaking cycle of poems. . . . Tragic, important, breathtaking. (author's, artist's notes)" --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"The poems have both the sense of natural speech and of oratory, giving rhythmic majesty to intensely detailed physical and emotional landscapes." --School Library Journal

L'autore:

Marilyn Nelson is a former poet laureate of Connecticut and three-time National Book Award finalist. She is the author of several award-winning books of poetry for children and young adults, including, Carver and Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem. She is also the director of Soul Mountain Retreat, a writers' residency, located in East Haddam, Connecticut. where she lives.

Deborah Dancy received a BFA degree, an MS degree in printmaking, and an MFA in painting. She has exhibited throughout the country, and her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is on the faculty of the University of Connecticut. Ms. Dancy resides in Storrs, Connecticut.

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• Editore: Front Street
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1932425578
• ISBN 13: 9781932425574
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 72
• Disegnatore: Muirhead Deborah