When the Slave Esperança Garcia Wrote a Letter by Sonia Rosa

When the Slave Esperança Garcia Wrote a Letter

Sonia Rosa with Jane Springer (Translator), Luciana Justiniana Hees (Illustrator)

48 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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In 1770, the slave Esperan a Garcia bravely penned a letter to the governor of Piau state, in Brazil, describing how she and her children were being mistreated and requesting permission to return to the farm where the rest of her family was livin...

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