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Dr. Afua Cooper est poète, auteure, chercheuse et historienne de renommée. Ses nombreux livres sont de genres aussi variés que la poésie, l'histoire, la fiction et la littérature jeunesse. Elle était poète officielle de la Municipalité régionale d'Halifax de 2018 à 2020. Elle est membre fondatrice de la Toronto Dub Poets Collective et lauréate de nombreux prix, dont le Portia White Prize (le prix artistique le plus distingué de la Nouvelle-Éco...

The Halifax Explosion" is a poem written by Halifax's seventh poet laureate, Dr. Afua Cooper. It reveals dramatically through powerful images what happened on 6 December 1917 at 9:05 AM when two ships, the Mont-Blanc, carrying munitions, and the Imo, carrying war supplies, collided in the Halifax Harbour. The poem shows the tragic toll the resulting explosion and fire took on the residents of Halifax and the surrounding area, which stretched a...

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This is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or storytellers, but captured by slave raiders and forced aboard a slave ship, where appalling conditions spell death for many of her companions. Numerous sharks follow the ship, feeding on the corpses of slaves thrown overboard. Weakened by the voyage and near death in a Boston slave market, Wheatley is bought by a kind family who nurses her back...

Often shocking, always compelling, Afua Cooper's novel is based on the life of Henry Bibb, an American slave who after repeated attempts escaped in 1841 to become an anti-slavery speaker, author and founder of a Black newspaper. Cooper takes painstakingly researched details about slavery and weaves an intimate story of Bibb's young life, which is overshadowed by inconceivable brutality. At nine years old, Henry is separated from his mother a...

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An anthology of personal essays from a range of young Black Canadian writers.

During the night of April 10, 1734, Montreal burned. Marie-Joseph Angelique, a 29-year-old slave, was arrested, and found guilty of starting the blaze that consumed 46 buildings. Suspecting that she had not acted alone, Angelique's condemners tortured her after the trial. This work tells the story of Marie-Joseph Angelique.

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The remarkable story of the young slave Phillis Wheatley, America's first black poet.