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Cane Warriors
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ISBN13: 9781617759062
Publisher: Black Sheep
Published: Oct 20 2020
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Winner of a 2021 Young Quills Award for Best Historical Fiction
Wheatle brings the struggle of slavery in the Jamaican sugar cane fields to life . . . A refreshing and heartbreaking story that depicts both a real-life uprising against oppression and the innate desire to be free. Highly recommended. --School Library Journal, Starred Review
NOBODY FREE TILL EVERYBODY FREE.
Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugarcane plantation for endless hot days, fearing the vicious whips of the overseers. Then one night he learns of an uprising, led by the charismatic Tacky. Moa is to be a cane warrior, and fight for the freedom of all the enslaved people in the nearby plantations. But before they can escape, Moa and his friend Keverton must face their first great task: to kill their overseer, Misser Donaldson. Time is ticking as the day of the uprising approaches . . .
Irresistible, gripping, and unforgettable, Cane Warriors follows the true story of Tacky's War in Jamaica, 1760.
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