Women with Wings

by Jacqueline A. Kolosov, Jacqueline Kolosov, Jacqueline McLean

The Muslim slave uprising in Bahia in 1835, though unsuccessful in winning freedom for the rebels, had national repercussions, making it the most important urban slave rebellion in the Americas and the only one in which Islam played a major role. Joao Jose Reis draws on hundreds of police and trial records in which Africans, despite obvious intimidation, spoke out about their cultural, social, economic, religious, and domestic lives in Salvador.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881508706
• ISBN13: 9781881508700
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Oliver Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Good introduction

This is a well written book about six extraordinary women. (Really, any woman who learned to fly befoer 1980 has got to be extraordinary, considering all the obstacles placed in her path by the male establishment as well as other women!) I was disappointed not to see Jerrie Cobb, but each of the women profiled deserve their place of honor.Parents - give this book to your kids - both boys and girls! Give them flying lessons! The freedom of the skies is freedom indeed.