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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"I find it so easy to forget / that Im just a girl who is expected / to live / without thoughts." Opposing slavery in Cuba in the nineteenth century was dangerous. The most daring abolitionists were poets who veiled their work in metaphor. Of these, the boldest was Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, nicknamed Tula. In passionate, accessible verses of her own, Engle evokes the voice of this book-loving feminist and abolitionist who bravely resisted an...
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