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"A novel based on a March 23, 1774, report by Louis Mosnier, captain of a slave ship, recounting an incident in which fourteen African women escaped from the ship's hold to leap overboard. Kanor focuses on the fourteen unnamed women, reinvesting them with identities and voices to narrate t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kanor, Fabienne (Author)
Other Authors: Palermo, Lynn E. (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Series:CARAF books.
Subjects:
Slave ships > Fiction.
Fugitive slaves > Fiction.
Enslaved women > Fiction.
Négriers (Navires) > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Esclaves fugitifs > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Femmes esclaves > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION / Literary.
Fugitive slaves
Slave ships
Enslaved women
novels.
Fiction
Novels
Novels.
Fiction.
Romans.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Translator's Acknowledgments
  • The Mute Woman
  • The Old Woman
  • The Slave
  • The Amazon
  • La Blanche
  • The Twin Sisters
  • The Employee
  • The Little One
  • The Queen
  • The-One-Who-Flies
  • The Mother
  • The Heiress
  • Afterword by Gladys M. Francis
  • Bibliography
  • Recent Books in the Series CARAF Books-Caribbean and African Literature

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