Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
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"A groundbreaking historical novel from a heralded author that explores the seldom discussed Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade. At a time when importing humans from Africa had been prohibited by the Spanish Crown, Pola and other slave women provide their master with babies who are immediately taken away and sold on the auction block. Her serial rapes by a number of men are routine and often provided entertainment for the master and his friends. Understandably...
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Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison's Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory's A Respectable Trade, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history, the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade, witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear more slaves.
A Woman of Endurance, set in nineteenth-century Puerto Rican plantation society, follows...
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Portuguese
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Pola, uma mulher de fé, foi sequestrada de sua terra natal e levada para fazendas em Porto Rico, onde é escravizada. Lá, ela desempenha a função de parideira, gerando mais e mais crianças que são tiradas dela assim que nascem.
Mas é impossível apagar o passado, e o futuro sempre chega.
Memórias de água e sal não é uma história de derrota, é um enredo sobre cura, no qual a fraternidade e a força de suas raízes são capazes de conduzir...
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English
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A lyrical powerful novel about a family of Afro-Puerto Rican women spanning five generations, detailing their physical and spiritual journey from the Old World to the New.
It is the mid-1800s. Fela, taken from Africa, is working at her second sugar plantation in colonial Puerto Rico, where her mistress is only too happy to benefit from her impressive embroidery skills. But Fela has a secret. Before she and her husband were separated and sold into...
5) Indómita
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HarperCollins Español
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[2022]
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Español
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"Pola, una mujer esclavizada en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIX ha sido forzada a vivir en el mundo brutalmente inhumano de las paridoras de esclavos. Golpeada y violada repetidamente, sus beb̌s le son arrebatados en el momento de nacer para no volver a verlos jam̀s. Despǔs de un intento de fuga y una golpiza despiadada, despierta en una nueva plantaci̤n, Las Mercedes, para formar parte de su diversa comunidad negra. Pero su pasado la persigue en...