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Rosa, Sonia

When the Slave Esperança Garcia Wrote a Letter

40 pp. | Groundwood | October, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-55498-729-0 $18.95 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-55498-730-6
(4) K-3 Translated by Jane Springer. Illustrated by Luciana Justiniani Hees. This is an important story of a slave woman who learned to read and write from Jesuit priests and later became the first African Brazilian to pen a letter of petition to the governor in an attempt to escape her master's abuse and be reunited with her family. A sometimes-unnatural first-person narrative switches suddenly and awkwardly to the third person; Hees's stylized, bold illustrations are, however, striking.
Reviewer: Julia Tyler

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