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The New York Times bestselling author of the Oprah Book Club Pick Cane River brings us the evocative story of a once-enslaved man who buys his freedom after serving as a translator during the American Indian Wars, and his granddaughter, who sustains his legacy of courage. Cow Tom, born into slavery in Alabama in 1810 and sold to a Creek Indian chief before his tenth birthday, possessed an extraordinary gift: the ability to master languages. (read more) |
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Now with her evocative, luminous style and painstaking research, Lalita Tademy takes her family's story even further, back to a little-chronicled, deliberately-forgotten time...and the struggle of three extraordinary generations of African-American men to forge brutal injustice and shattered promise into a limitless future for their children. (read more) |
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The New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick—the unique and deeply moving epic of four generations of African-American women based on one family's ancestral past. (read more) |