Book
Africa is my home : a child of the Amistad
Record details
- ISBN: 0763650382
- ISBN: 9780763650384 (hc.)
- ISBN: 9780763650384 (hbk.)
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Physical Description:
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55 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2013.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 10 and up. |
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| Subject: | Amistad (Schooner) -- Fiction Slavery -- Fiction Green, Sarah Margru Kinson -- -1858 -- Juvenile fiction |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Smithers Public Library | J EDI (Text) | 35101000421136 | Children's room | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-01 |
- Baker & Taylor
Inspired by a true story, the compelling tale of a child who arrives in America on the slave shipAmistad describes her capture, her witness to a mutiny and the Supreme Court trial that prompts her return to Africa. - Baker & Taylor
Presents a tale of a child who arrives in America on the slave ship Amistad describing her capture, her witness to a mutiny, and the Supreme Court trial that prompts her return to Africa. - Random House, Inc.
Inspired by a true account, here is the compelling story of a child who arrives in America on the slave ship Amistad 'and eventually makes her way home to Africa.
When a drought hits her homeland in Sierra Leone, nine-year-old Magulu is sold as a pawn by her father in exchange for rice. But before she can work off her debt, an unthinkable chain of events unfolds: a capture by slave traders; weeks in a dark and airless hold; a landing in Cuba, where she and three other children are sold and taken aboard the Amistad; a mutiny aboard ship; a trial in New Haven that eventually goes all the way to the Supreme Court and is argued in the Africans' favor by John Quincy Adams. Narrated in a remarkable first-person voice, this fictionalized book of memories of a real-life figure retells history through the eyes of a child ' from seeing mirrors for the first time and struggling with laughably complicated clothing to longing for family and a home she never forgets. Lush, full-color illustrations by Robert Byrd, plus archival photographs and documents, bring an extraordinary journey to life.
