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1) Perro viejo
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Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Perro Viejo has been a slave in a sugar plantation for years. Old and tired, he often thinks of running far away. So, the old slave plans to help Aísa, a ten-year old escape.
Perro Viejo fue separado de su madre al nacer y no ha conocido otra vida que la de servidumbre en un ingenio azucarero. Su nombre, que significa "Perro Viejo", se lo dio el due?o de la plantaci?n porque, como los sabuesos que persegu?an a los esclavos fugitivos, Perro Viejo...
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The narrator of Letters to My Mother is a young Afro-Cuban girl who, upon the death of her mother, must live with her aunt and cousins. Dependent on them and their good will, she finds their taunts about how dark her skin is and their attacks on her behavior, including her choice not to straighten her hair, deeply wounding. To keep her mother alive somehow, and to remember that she was once deeply loved, she writes letters telling Mamita what she...