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100			_aGyasi, Yaa
245		0	_aHomegoing _h[electronic resource]
260			_a[Harmondsworth] _bPenguin _c2016
500			_aDownloadable eBook.
500			_aFiction.
500			_aAdult.
520			_aRemote
520			_aWritten with tremendous sweep and power, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history, each life indelibly drawn, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day. Effia and Esi are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle?s dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast?s booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia?s descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.
520			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
520			_a[electronic resource] /
690			_aSlavery-United States-Fiction
690			_aWomen, Black-Fiction
690			_aSisters-Fiction
690			_aInternarriage-England-Fiction
690			_aHistorical fiction
856			_u#gotoholdings _yAccess resource
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