Let us descend, Jesmyn Ward
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Let us descend, Jesmyn Ward
Language
eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Let us descend
Oclc number
1402248702
Responsibility statement
Jesmyn Ward
Summary
Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take
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- Enslaved persons -- Fiction
- Multiracial people -- Fiction
- Slavery -- United States -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Novels
- African American children -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Spirits -- Fiction
- Girls, Black -- Fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- Enslavers -- United States -- Fiction
- Memory -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Enslaved women -- Fiction
- BIPOC -- Fiction
- Louisiana -- Fiction
- Black families -- Fiction
- Parents -- Fiction
- African American families -- Fiction
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- Subject19
- Enslaved persons -- Fiction
- Multiracial people -- Fiction
- Slavery -- United States -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Novels
- African American children -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Spirits -- Fiction
- Girls, Black -- Fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- Enslavers -- United States -- Fiction
- Memory -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Enslaved women -- Fiction
- BIPOC -- Fiction
- Louisiana -- Fiction
- Black families -- Fiction
- Parents -- Fiction
- African American families -- Fiction
- Content1
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