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Author:

Wheatle, Alex, 1963- author.

Title:

Cane warriors / by Alex Wheatle.

Publisher:

Black Sheep,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

198 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Plantations--Fiction.
Sugarcane--Fiction.
Slave insurrections--Jamaica--18th century--Fiction.
Slavery--Jamaica--18th century--Fiction.

Notes:

"This story is based upon true events. I dedicate it to the might Tacky and his fellow cane warriors of 1760...." author's note, page [11].

Summary:

Jamaica, 1760. Moa, a fourteen-year-old slave, has only ever known life on the Frontier sugarcane plantation. Awoken in the middle of the night, he hears that the rebel revolt will begin on Easter Sunday. They will fight for freedom, for themselves and other enslaved people in the nearby plantation. Before they can escape Moa and his friend Keverton must face their first task: kill their overseer, Misser Donaldson. -- adapted from back cover

ISBN:

9781617758553
1617758558

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1143633462

LCCN:

2020935818

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)