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Bezig met laden... River Sing Me Home: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) (origineel 2023; editie 2023)door Eleanor Shearer (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkRiver Sing Me Home door Eleanor Shearer (2023)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Caribbean, Slavery ( ) This is the heartbreaking story of Rachel, a slave on a sugar cane plantation in Barbados in 1864 when the Emancipation Act is decreed; however, the slaves are held for another six years as apprentices and runaways will still be captured and punished. Determined to find the children that have been taken from her and probably sold at auction, she makes the decision to run in the dead of night. Due to the assistance of generous strangers, Rachel escapes and eventually finds her daughter, Mary Grace, in the employ of kind people. The two of them begin a dangerous journey by ship to find her other missing children. She is undaunted by the perils that await as she seeks her other children. This is a testament to her strength, courage and unrelenting resolve to reunite with those who have so cruelly been taken from her. This is a historical novel set in the Caribbean in the 1830s. Rachel is a slave, but when the king announces an end to slavery, she rejoices. However, the plantation owner says they must work for him for 6 years as apprentices. This is just another form of slavery. Rachel runs, and escapes. But, she now must search for her children who were taken from her over the years. She watches as they live their lives and grow. It is a realistic look at slavery, race relations, and a mother's love. Haunting and painfully beautiful. Hope hurts. A mother flees the plantation where she is still essentially enslaved despite slavery legally "ending" in the Caribbean. She is in search of her children who were torn from her over the years, having been sold to other enslavers. She had 11 children in all, but only five lived long enough to be sold away from her. This is an amazing tale of a mother's journey to find her children and make sure they know her love. It is about how everyone finds freedom a little differently, and about the brutal hope that lives on if you can make peace with the pain that comes with it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs. Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children-the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the forest of British Guiana and finally across the sea to Trinidad. She is driven on by the certainty that a mother cannot be truly free without knowing what has become of her children, even if the answer is more than she can bear. These are the stories of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. But above all this is the story of Rachel and the extraordinary lengths to which a mother will go to find her children...and her freedom"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.9200Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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