A Woman of Endurance: A Novel [hardcover] Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma [May 26, 2022]

A Woman of Endurance: A Novel [hardcover] Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma [May 26, 2022]

A Woman of Endurance: A Novel Hardcover \u2013 26 May 2022by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa (Author)\n\nCombining the haunting power of Toni Morrison\u2019s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory\u2019s A Respectable Trade, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa\u2019s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history\u2014the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade\u2014witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear more slaves.\nA Woman of Endurance, set in nineteenth-century Puerto Rican plantation society, follows Pola, a deeply spiritual African woman who is captured and later sold for the purpose of breeding future slaves. The resulting babies are taken from her as soon as they are born. Pola loses the faith that has guided her and becomes embittered and defensive. The dehumanizing violence of her life almost destroys her. But this is not a novel of defeat but rather one of survival,;

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