Hugh Quarshie
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English
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Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next 12 years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation, and during this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. This is his detailed description of slave life and plantation society.
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2022
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English
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London. June 2019, early morning: on the foreshore of the River Thames a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones. DCI Samuel Owusu quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many years ago. Also inside the bag are the seeds of a rare tree which lead DCI Owusu to a mansion in Chelsea where, nearly 30 years previously, three people lay dead in a kitchen while a baby waited upstairs...