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In
Praise of Black Women, Volume 2
Heroines
of the Slavery Era
Simone Schwarz-Bart with André Schwarz-Bart
Translated by Rose-Myriam Réjouis,
Val Vinokurov and Stephanie K. Turner
With a Foreword by Howard Dobson, Director of The Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture/New York Public Library
Heroines
of the Slavery Era
weaves oral tradition, folk legends and stories, songs and poems,
historical accounts, and personal writings from North and South
America and the Caribbean, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth
century.
These women
of the slavery era include Aqualtune, a princess from Congo enslaved
in Brazil and the Caribbean, who led an army of ten thousand
warriors in the Battle of Mbwila; Anastasia, an African slave
in Brazil, who today is considered the patron saint of Brazil's
blacks; Solitude, a slave in the French West Indies, the leader
of the survivors of the La Goyave and legendary in Guadeloupe
to this day; Phillis Wheatley, a slave in Boston, a child prodigy
and brilliant woman whose poetry is among the finest from the
early American era; Harriet Tubman, heroine of the Underground
Railroad who helped hundreds of other slaves escape to freedom
in the United States and Canada; Ellen Craft, a slave who successfully
escaped to Philadelphia with her husband; Sojourner Truth, famed
orator on behalf of the rights of women and the abolition of
slavery; and many others.
Simone Schwarz-Bart is the author of six novels and a
play, which have been translated and published in many languages;
Between Two Worlds and The Bridge of Beyond have
been published in English. André Schwarz-Bart is the author
of three novels, including Le Dernier des justes (The Last
of the Just), which was awarded the 1959 Prix Goncourt and
has been translated into twenty languages. Rose-Myriam Réjouis
and Val Vinokurov have previously translated two works
by French novelist Patrick Chamoiseau: Solibo Magnificent
and Texaco. Stephanie K.Turner is completing
a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Princeton University, specializing
in Francophone literature.
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Find out
more about other volumes of In Praise of Black Women
In Praise of Black Women
Vol. 1 Ancient African Queens
In
Praise of Black Women
Vol. 3 Modern African Women
Additional information about
the French and English Editions
This series originally appeared
in French as a six-volume work entitled Hommage à la
Femme Noire published in 1988 by Editions Consulaires, with
more than 10,000 sets sold.
Volume 1 in English combines
the French Volumes 1 & 2. Volume 2 in English is a translation
of Volume 3 in French. Volume 3 in English is a translation of
Volume 4 in French, but also includes new material. |
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October
2002
268 pp. 9
x 12
320 color & b/w illus.
Cloth $49.95 t
ISBN 978-0-299-17260-2
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