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Thomas, Kai.
Subjects
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Blacks -- Ontario, Southern -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
First Nations -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Underground Railroad -- Fiction.
Ontario, Southwestern -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Ontario, Southwestern -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Thomas, Kai.
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Blacks -- Ontario, Southern -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
First Nations -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Underground Railroad -- Fiction.
Ontario, Southwestern -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Ontario, Southwestern -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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In the Upper Country / Kai Thomas.
by
Thomas, Kai.
Viking Canada, 2023.
Call #:
FICTION
THO
Subjects
Slavery
--
Southern
States
--
History
--
19th
century
--
Fiction
.
Blacks
--
Ontario,
Southern
--
History
--
19th
century
--
Fiction
.
First Nations
--
History
--
19th
century
--
Fiction
.
Underground Railroad
--
Fiction
.
Ontario, Southwestern
--
Race
relations
--
History
--
19th
century
--
Fiction
.
Ontario, Southwestern
--
History
--
19th
century
--
Fiction
.
Southern
States
--
Race
relations
--
History
--
19th
century
--
Fiction
.
Southern
States
--
History
--
19th
century
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780735243460 (Cdn hc)
9780593489505 (US hc)
Description:
334 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th
century
southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning
states
of the American south
--
whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot dead on his land by an old woman recently arrived via the Underground Railroad. When the old woman, whose name is Cash, refuses to flee before the authorities arrive, the farmer urges Lensinda to gather testimony from her before Cash is condemned. But Cash doesn't want to confess
--
instead she proposes a barter: A story for a story. And so begins an extraordinary exchange of life stories that reveal the interwoven
history
of Canada and the United
States
; of Indigenous peoples from a wide swath of what is called North America and the Black men and women brought here into slavery and their free descendents on both sides of the border. As Cash's time runs out, Lensinda realizes she knows far less than she believed not only about the complicated tapestry of her people's ancestry, but also of her own family
history
. And it seems that Cash may carry a secret that could shape Lensinda's destiny. Moving from Virginia to Kentucky, from Montreal to Indigenous communities on the shores of the Great Lakes and Black communties in
southern
Ontario and a fictionalized version of Owen Sound, these two women's life stories weave together love, tragedy, and survival, to map their own unexpected interconnections onto the
history
of North America in an entirely new and resonant way."--Publisher.
Genre:
Historical
fiction
.
Canadian
fiction
.
Black
fiction
.
Literary
fiction
.
First novel.
Holds:
5
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Adult Black Fiction
FICTION THO
Adult books
Checked out
Jul 17, 2024
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Adult Black Fiction
FICTION THO
Adult books
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Adult Black Fiction
FICTION THO
Adult books
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Aug 17, 2024
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Adult Black Fiction
FICTION THO
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Jul 17, 2024
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