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Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons

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Hang a Thousand trees with Ribbons
First edition
AuthorAnn Rinaldi
LanguageEnglish
SeriesGreat Episodes
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherScholastic
Publication date
1996
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages352 pp
ISBN0-15-200876-4
OCLC34150871
LC ClassPZ7.R459 Han 1996
Preceded byKeep Smiling Through 
Followed byAn Acquaintance with Darkness 

Hang a Thousand trees with Ribbons is a 1996 historical novel by Ann Rinaldi. The story, told in first-person narration, follows the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American poet. The story recounts her capture by black slavers in Africa and the horrors of the Middle Passage as experienced by a woman of intelligence and artistic ability when society assumed Africans were not endowed with either. Ann Rinaldi's vivid portrayal of the first African American poet is set against the backdrop of the American War of Independence, so there is a double theme of search for liberty in the novel.