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In 'Freewater' Amina Luqman-Dawson uses YA fiction to dive deep into Black history
Listen to the episodeA YA historical fiction novel imagining life inside the Great Dismal Swamp's maroon colonies, where indigenous peoples and escaped slaves built communities of freedom, love, and change from the late 1600s to the Civil War.
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