Afua Cooper
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Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision, dealing with such themes as rebirth (physical and symbolic), mythology, memory, bondage, blood, family, identities in flux, migration, politics and flights of fancy. The contents move back and forth between the past and the present, and project into the future, envisioning a new world/a new creation. The message that we are our brothers and our sisters keepers...
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Stories of the hopeful, brave people who fled slavery and made Toronto their home.
The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! explores Toronto's role as a destination for thousands of freedom seekers before the American Civil War. This new edition traces pathways taken by people, enslaved and free, who courageously made the trip north in search of liberty and offers new biographies, images, and information, some of which is augmented by a 2015...
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"Stories of the hopeful, brave people who fled slavery and made Toronto their home. "An engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s." -- Lawrence Hill, bestselling author of The Illegal The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! is a richly illustrated book that explores Toronto's role as a destination for thousands of freedom-seekers before the American Civil War. This newly revised edition traces...