Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons is a 1996 historical novel by Ann Rinaldi. It is part of the Great Episodes series. The story,told in first-person narration, follows the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first published African-American poet. The story recounts her capture by black slavers in Africa, the horrors of the Middle Passage, and her emergence as a woman of intelligence and artistic ability, when society assumed Africans were not endowed with either.
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| Dear America |
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Term Paper (1980) • Promises Are for Keeping (1982) • But in the Fall I'm Leaving (1985) • Time Enough for Drums (1986) • The Good Side of My Heart (1987) • The Last Silk Dress (1988) • Wolf by the Ears (1991) • In My Father's House (1992) • The Second Bend in the River (1997) • Mine Eyes Have Seen (1997) • Amelia's War (1999) • The Education of Mary: A Little Miss of Color, 1832 (2000) • Girl in Blue (2001) • Millicent's Gift (2002) • Taking Liberty: (2002) • Numbering All the Bones (2002) • Sarah's Ground (2004) • Mutiny's Daughter (2004) • Nine Days a Queen (2005) • Brooklyn Rose (2005) • The Color of Fire (2005) • The Redheaded Princess (2008) • My Vicksburg (2009) • Leigh-Anne's Civil War (2009) • The Family Greene (2010) • The Last Full Measure (November 2010)
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