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The Slave Girl: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Buchi Emecheta
Publisher: George Braziller
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 50875
Media: Paperback
Pages: 179
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0807609528
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN: 9780807609521
ASIN: 0807609528
Publication Date: March 1980
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Condition: pages are as featured cover slightly worn
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thought provoking November 18, 2000
Olumide Ogunremi (Camillus, New York USA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Once again Ms Emecheta has written a thought provoking and captivating book about domestic slavery in Nigeria. The setting is in Nigeria in the early 20th Century and wound around significant events of the time such as the Influenza epidemic, Aba market women's riot,colonization and arrival of the missionaries. The heroine a young girl is sold into slavery by her own brother after the death of their parents in the influenze epidemic. The story details the twists and turns in her life while in bondage, her eventual return to her people and subsequent events.
Entertaining and Realistic August 21, 2000
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Though a novel, this tale shows the type of slavery that has continued to exist in Africa until very recently, and continues in some parts today. Emecheta presents a girl's predicament from a personal perspective, telling the reader both why slavery was seen as necessary and how it hurt this child. She also makes clear that this is a very different kind of slavery than that pictured by Americans. Well-written and only half fiction, this novel is a good read for anyone interested in West African culture.
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