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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...

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Main Author: Williams, Sheila (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022.
Edition: Large print edition.
Subjects:
Slavery > Fiction.
African American women > Fiction.
African American midwives > Fiction.
Women slaves > Fiction.
Courage > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Large print books.
Table of Contents:
  • PART I: IN THE BEFORE TIME: Liberty Township, Highland County, Ohio May 1870
  • Man Killer
  • Little Bird
  • Ouidah
  • Home
  • The Tenth Day
  • Carolina Cove, Queen's Bay, Jamaica About 1769
  • Caesar
  • The Black Mary
  • Caesar's Key
  • Little One
  • Medicine Woman, Too
  • 1 Female Abt 16 Yrs Dark Well Formed
  • North From Savannah
  • PART II: THE DAUGHTER OF A STRANGE GOD:
  • White Maple Grove, Chesapeake County, Virginia
  • The Border Land
  • Once in a while they'd give us a li'l piece of Sat'day evenin' to wash out clothes in the branch
  • Mary Reynolds
  • Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
  • Jeremiah 4:3, King James Version
  • Patience
  • Cloudsplitter
  • The Wedding
  • James's Wife
  • Foreknower
  • PART III: WISE WOMAN: Tomorrow
  • The Scotsman
  • Ned
  • Baby Edward
  • But They Will Not All Be Yours
  • Maryam's Boy
  • The Indian's Cave
  • Alexander Edward McCulloch Grace
  • PART IV: MOMMA GRACE: The River
  • Partus Sequitur Ventrem
  • Blackjack
  • Eaton's Stop, Highland County, Ohio Summer, 1870
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author.

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