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"Beautifully composed,as in the slave stories that influenced it, vocabulary is power."—Nancy Kline, Ny Times Book ReviewKidnapped like a kid from Africa, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in Sc but escapes throughout the mayhem of the Revolutionary Struggle. In Ny she becomes a scribe for the English, documenting the names of greens who've offered the Master and gained independence in Nova Scotia. However the bias and difficulty there induce her to check out her heart back once again to Africa, then on to London, where she bears witness to the injustices of slavery and its toll on her life and an entire people. It's a tale that no audience, and no audience, can ever forget.