Ama A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Name: Ama A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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ISBN: 9781497636019

ISBN-10: 1497636019

ISBN-13: 9781497636019

Edition: N/A

Authors: Manu Herbstein

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Winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book. Thrust into a foreign land, passed from owner to owner, stripped of her identity. This is the life of Nandzi, who was given the name Ama, a name strange to her and her tribal culture. A life of struggle and resignation, bondage and freedom, passion and indifference, intense love and remorseless hate. Though forced into desperation, Ama never lets her soul be consumed by fear. While the stories of individual slaves have been blurred into one mass, Ama's story personifies the experience of eighteenth-century Africans in an unforgettable way. Her entrancing story of defiance and spiritual fire starts from the day she is brutally…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Publication date: 9/23/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Manu Herbstein is the Ghanaian author of Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade which won the 2002 Commonwealth Writer's prize for best first book. Brave Music of a Distant Drum makes fresh use of his original research material for a younger, North American audience.