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Author Shearer, Eleanor, author.

Title RIVER SING ME HOME / Eleanor Shearer.

Edition Large print edition.
Publication Info. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.
©2023
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3063662~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult Large Type Fiction  F SHEARER    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Large Type Fiction  F SHEARER    AVAILABLE
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Description 501 pages (large print) : map ; 22 cm
Physical Medium large print rda
Summary "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" --publisher's website (standard print version)
Subject Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Caribbean Area -- Fiction.
Mother and child -- Fiction.
Escaped prisoners -- Caribbean Area -- Fiction.
Enslaved women -- Caribbean Area -- Fiction.
Emancipation Day (British West Indies) -- Fiction.
Black people -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Barbados -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
West Indies, British -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
Large type books.
ISBN 9798885785860
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