The River where Blood is Born
- ISBN-10
- 034542476X
- ISBN-13
- 9780345424761
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 401
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- One World
- Author
- Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Description
The great river goddess and the ancestor mothers watch over their descendants as they are kidnapped from Africa and forced into slavery, and as they escape slavery and struggle to survive in a land in which they are despised
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