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Name: The Captive

Author: Joyce Hansen
Year: 1994
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Popularity: 1.1
Genres/categories: Award winners
Culture: Africa

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ISBN:
9780590416245
0590416243
Winner of the Coretta Scott King award for Author Honor in 1995.

"Modeled after an actual slave narrative, this moving first-person tale follows 12-year-old Kofi from his kidnapping in West Africa to his cruel enslavement in Massachusetts and his subsequent freedom and career as a sailor . . . "The well-crafted and compelling survival story juxtaposes two cultures and gives a unique account of slavery".--Horn Book.
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