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02406aam a2200301 i 4500 001 38ED9082538D11EE852D3C9B35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230915010037 007 r 008 220621s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2022025626 020 $a 0593548051 020 $a 9780593548059 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Shearer, Eleanor, $e author. $t River sing me home. 245 1 $a River sing me home / $c Eleanor Shearer. 264 1 $a New York : $b Berkley, $c 2023. 300 $a 1 online resource. 520 $a "Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs. Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children-the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the forest of British Guiana and finally across the sea to Trinidad. She is driven on by the certainty that a mother cannot be truly free without knowing what has become of her children, even if the answer is more than she can bear. These are the stories of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. But above all this is the story of Rachel and the extraordinary lengths to which a mother will go to find her children...and her freedom"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20230622. 650 $a Enslaved persons $x Emancipation $z Caribbean Area $v Fiction. 650 $a Mother and child $v Fiction. 650 $a Caribbean Area $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. 941 $a 1 952 $l WUPB305 $d 20230915011107.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=38ED9082538D11EE852D3C9B35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search