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Miranda

Miranda

Elaine Blick

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Balboa Press
Año de edición:
2017
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Ficción histórica
ISBN:
9781504388085
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Miranda is a black ex-slave, now the owner of a sugar plantation in Jamaica in the late eighteenth century. Her battle to overcome prejudice and to raise the status of African slaves by teaching them to read and write makes compelling reading. Her personal struggle with an overseer who preys on black women to satisfy his sexual appetite has far-reaching consequences.

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