About this book
A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
Great Episodes · 5 books
In publication order- A Break with Charity 1992
- Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons 1996 This book
- An Acquaintance with Darkness 1997
- Cast Two Shadows 1998
Subjects
- 1000blackgirlbooks
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- children's fiction
- enslaved persons, fiction
- fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction
- massachusetts, fiction
- massachusetts, history, fiction
- poets
- poets, fiction
- slavery, fiction
- slaves
- women, fiction
- women poets