Ajeemah and His SonAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 1 January 1991
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In 1807, at the height of the slave trade, Ajeemah and his son, Atu, are snatched by slave traders from their home in Africa while en route to deliver a dowry to Atus bride-to-be. Ajeemah and Atu are then taken to Jamaica and sold to neighboring plantationsnever to see one another again. "Readers will come away with a new sense of respect for those who maintained their dignity and humanity under the cruelest of circumstances."SLJ. "Each moment here of the Jamaican-born poets terse, melodious narrative is laden with emotion. . . . Brilliant, complex, powerfully written."––K.
Notable Childrens Book of 1993 (ALA)
1993 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)
1993 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
1992 Books for Youth Editors Choices (BL)
Notable 1992 Childrens Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
Bulletin Blue Ribbons 1992 (C)
1993 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)
Childrens Books of 1992 (Library of Congress)
1993 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Award
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