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Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History (Graphic History Series)
by Trevor R. Getz
Binding: Paperback
Author: Trevor R. Getz, Liz Clarke
Number of Pages: 238
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Abina and the Important Men A Graphic History Graphic Abina and the Important Men is a powerful graphic novel based on an late 1800s court transcript of a west African woman named Abina Abina believed she was wrongly enslaved so she ran away and took the case to court The book empowers slavery and the impact it had on the justice system and how it collided economically Customer reviews Abina and the Important Men Abina and the Important Men is a powerful graphic novel based on an late 1800s court transcript of a west African woman named Abina Abina believed she was wrongly enslaved so she ran away and took the case to court The book empowers slavery and the impact it had on the justice system and how it collided economically Abina and the Important Men A Graphic History by Trevor R Abina and the Important Men A Graphic History is a graphic novel that I read in my History of Africa course last year Interestingly the text begins as a graphic novel At first it was challenging to understand the sequence of events because it looked like a bunch of comic strips Abina and the Important Men A Graphic History Getz Abina and the Important Men is also simply a history about “women without history” and parallels as a historical production Sandra Greens recent book West African Narratives of Slavery Texts From Late NineteenthAnd Early Twentieth Century Ghana 2011 The graphic history was clearly designed specifically for use in the classroom Review Abina and the Important Men A Graphic History Abina and the Important Men A Graphic History by historian Trevor R Getz and illustrator Liz Clarke is a unique combination of educational storytelling and meticulous historical research Touted by its authors as a new kind of historical graphic “novel”—a graphic history— Abina contains a pictorial translation of an engrossing historical account Abina and the important men a graphic history in ContentsSummary Abina and the Important Men is a compelling and powerfully illustrated graphic history based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina who was wrongfully enslaved and took her case to court The book is a microhistory that does much more than simply depict an event in the past
