Description
In this powerful novelization, Phillis Wheatley’s life unfolds from the moment she is torn from her homeland and sold into slavery, confronting the brutality of slave traders and the fragile hope of freedom. Raised in the household of Susanna Wheatley, she is taught to read and write—discovering poetry as both refuge and resistance as her voice begins to challenge the world that tried to silence her. Afua Cooper weaves a vivid, emotionally resonant narrative that explores identity, literacy, and the cost of survival, while illuminating how art can become a form of agency. With its historically grounded storytelling and lyrical sensibility, this book brings to the forefront the enduring question of what it means to claim one’s name—and one’s freedom.
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paperback
Kids Can Press
Published Jan 1, 2009
152 pages
ISBN: 9781553378129
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First Published
2009
Language
eng
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