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Carvery, Leslie.
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Families, Black -- Fiction.
Blacks -- Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Nineteen sixties -- Fiction.
Blacks -- Relocation -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- Fiction.
Coping with hardship -- Fiction.
Africville (Halifax, N.S.) -- Fiction.
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Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
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Carvery, Leslie.
Families, Black -- Fiction.
Blacks -- Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Nineteen sixties -- Fiction.
Blacks -- Relocation -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- Fiction.
Coping with hardship -- Fiction.
Africville (Halifax, N.S.) -- Fiction.
Halifax (N.S.) -- History -- Fiction.
Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
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Africville
my
home
/ Leslie Carvery.
by
Carvery, Leslie.
Leslie Carvery, c2016.
Call #:
FICTION CAR
Subjects
Families, Black -- Fiction.
Blacks -- Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Nineteen sixties -- Fiction.
Blacks -- Relocation -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- Fiction.
Coping with hardship -- Fiction.
Africville
(Halifax, N.S.) -- Fiction.
Halifax (N.S.) -- History -- Fiction.
Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
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ISBN:
9780994998705 (pbk.)
Description:
105 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"To the people of
Africville
whose stories were never told."--Author's dedication.
"To
my
loving father Nelson Carvery who has worked endlessly to have the wrongs of
Africville
changed."--Cover.
Summary:
"Hope is a young girl being groomed for bigger things when love starts to change her destiny. A young boy finds his place among his friends and family. A community struggles to survive against the tide of progress. Follow the lives of the people of Africville--a place dear to many hearts.
Africville
my
home
is fictional story about the real lives in a real town in the second half of the twentieth century. The story is set in a Black community on the shoreline of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The tale of a love story, coming of age and the fight for what we all hold dearest--our
home
and family. Leslie Carvery was raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has dedicated her life to the arts. Leaving behind her dance career, Leslie moved to Montreal for the purpose of writing and releasing the stories inside."--From Publisher.
Genre:
Black fiction.
Historical fiction.
Canadian fiction.
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