Word: africanism
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When she began her novel at age 12, Carter says she read slave narratives and made frequent trips to the library to learn about African-American life in the early 1800s...
Inspired by her own family history, Carter decided to write about a girl who is kidnapped from her African home and enslaved in Tennessee, where she secretly learns to read despite her plantation’s rules...
...asks the students about their own conceptions of these three values and their knowledge of African-American history, her cheerful refrain of “very good, very good” in response to each child’s contribution reveals her enthusiasm for teaching...
Around the time she began writing “Good Fortune,” Carter sent a letter to one of her favorite authors, African-American science fiction writer Tananarive...
...urges her young listeners to look up a figure from African-American history whom they have never heard of before—and to e-mail her with their findings...