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Siân Rees
340 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780701181598
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication date: Not specified
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When the abolitionist Granville Sharpe bought land in Sierra Leone to ‘repatriate’ freed slaves, one former slave living in London foresaw trouble. ‘Is it possible,’ asked Ottobah Cugoano, biblically, ‘that a fountain should send forth both sweet ...
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Siân Rees
340 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780701181598
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication date: Not specified
Description
When the abolitionist Granville Sharpe bought land in Sierra Leone to ‘repatriate’ freed slaves, one former slave living in London foresaw trouble. ‘Is it possible,’ asked Ottobah Cugoano, biblically, ‘that a fountain should send forth both sweet ...