Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons
Author | Ann Rinaldi |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Great Episodes |
Genre | Historical novel |
Publisher | Scholastic |
Publication date | 1996 |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 352 pp |
ISBN | 0-15-200876-4 |
OCLC | 34150871 |
LC Class | PZ7.R459 Han 1996 |
Preceded by | Keep Smiling Through |
Followed by | An Acquaintance with Darkness |
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons is a 1996 historical novel by Ann Rinaldi. The story, told in first-person narration, follows the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American poet. The story recounts her capture by black slavers in Africa and the horrors of the Middle Passage as experienced by a woman of intelligence and artistic ability when society assumed Africans were not endowed with either.
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