Things past telling [LP] a novel
"Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace survives capture, enslavement, the Atlantic crossing, and a brief stint as a pirate's ward, acting as both a spy and translator. Maryam learns midwifery from a Caribbean-born woman. Those skills allow her to sometim...
| Main Author: | Williams, Sheila (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book Large Print |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Waterville, ME :
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company,
2022.
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| Edition: | Large print edition. |
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| Summary: |
"Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace survives capture, enslavement, the Atlantic crossing, and a brief stint as a pirate's ward, acting as both a spy and translator. Maryam learns midwifery from a Caribbean-born woman. Those skills allow her to sometimes transcend the racial and class barriers of her enslavement, as she tries to balance the lives and health of her own people with the cruel economic mandates of the slave holders. Throughout her life, Maryam gains and loses her homeland, her family, her culture, her husband, her lovers, and her children. Yet as the decades pass, this tenacious woman never loses her sense of self."--Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: |
483 pages (large print) ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781432898304 1432898302 |