Once on This River - Hardcover

Wyeth, Sharon Dennis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679883509 ISBN 13: 9780679883500

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

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While on a trip with her mother from Madagascar to New York in 1760, eleven-year-old Monday learns the horrors of slavery and the truth about her "other" mother.

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Monday de Groot and her mother, Lesley, a midwife, sail from their home in Madagascar to New York, to testify on behalf of Lesley's brother Frederick, who has been falsely imprisoned and taken as a slave. Because Lesley has the only papers to prove that Frederick is in fact a free black man, she risks the journey despite its danger for Monday--the potential discovery of the secret of her own birth. While in New York, Monday meets a brother she never knew she had and learns the truth of her heritage.  She is not a free African child, as she's always believed, but a child of slaves.  The effects of this revelation are astonishing, as Monday comes to grips with her identity and meets her birth mother. Based on historical documents from the 1800s, this compelling story and its remarkable characters will live on in the readers' memory long after the book has been closed.

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679883509
• ISBN 13: 9780679883500
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 150