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Maritcha
A Nineteenth-Century American Girl
By Bolden, Tonya
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-81095-045-0
- Publisher
- Abrams
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2005
Gr 4-Up Readers met Maritcha Ré mond Lyons in Bolden's "Tell All the Children Our Story" (Abrams, 2002), in a one-page entry that included an excerpt from her unpublished memoir. The author has now expanded her use of Lyons's memoir, family archival materials, and other primary sources to tell the story of this free black child before, during, and after the Civil War. Maritcha's achievements were extraordinary for her time, gender, and race. During her youth in lower Manhattan, she was exposed to many strong, well-educ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2005
This handsome album expands on the early life of a girl first introduced to readers in Bolden's Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America (rev. 3/02). Although life in lower Manhattan in the 1850s, with its emphasis on church and family, seemed ordinary for Maritcha Remond Lyons and the other freeborn blacks in her community, eventually events took an ugly turn for great numbers of them. Bolden draws on a typewritten memoir Maritcha produced...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
