Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons

Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons

Author	Ann Rinaldi
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Great Episodes
Genre	Historical novel
Publisher	Scholastic
Publication date	1996
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	352 pp
ISBN	0-15-200876-4
OCLC	34150871
LC Class	PZ7.R459 Han 1996
Preceded by	Keep Smiling Through
Followed by	An Acquaintance with Darkness

Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons is a 1996 historical novel by Ann Rinaldi. The story, told in first-person narration, follows the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American poet. The story recounts her capture by black slavers in Africa and the horrors of the Middle Passage as experienced by a woman of intelligence and artistic ability when society assumed Africans were not endowed with either.

Novels by Ann Rinaldi

Episodes	A Ride into Morning (1991) A Break with Charity (1992) The Fifth of March (1993) Finishing Becca (1994) The Secret of Sarah Revere (1995) Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons (1996) An Acquaintance with Darkness (1997) Cast Two Shadows (1998) The Coffin Quilt (1999) The Staircase (2000) Girl in Blue (2001) Numbering all the Bones (2002) Or Give Me Death (2003) An Unlikely Friendship (2007) Come Juneteenth (2007) The Ever-After Bird (2007) Juliet's Moon (2008) The Letter Writer (2008)

Other novels	Wolf by the Ears (1991) Girl in Blue (2001) The Redheaded Princess (2008)

Slave narratives

Individuals
by continent
of enslavement

Africa	Robert Adams (b. c. 1790 US) Francis Bok (b. 1979 Sudan) James Leander Cathcart (1 June 1767 Ire – 6 October 1843 US) Mende Nazer (1982–) Thomas Pellow (b. 1705 Eng – ?) Joseph Pitts (1663–1735?) Englishman captured by pirates from Algeria

Europe	Lovisa von Burghausen (1698–1733) Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 Nigeria – 31 March 1797 Eng) Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (c. 1705 Bornu – 1775 Eng) Roustam Raza (1783–1845) Brigitta Scherzenfeldt (1684–1736)

North America: Canada	Marie-Joseph Angélique (c. 1710 Portugal – 1734 Montreal)

North America: Caribbean	Juan Francisco Manzano (1797–1854, Cuba) Esteban Montejo (1860–1965, Cuba) Mary Prince Venerable Pierre Toussaint (1766 Saint-Dominque – June 30, 1853 NY) Marcos Xiorro (c. 1819 – ???, Puerto Rico)

North America: United States	Sam Aleckson Jordan Anderson William J. Anderson Jared Maurice Arter Solomon Bayley Polly Berry Henry Bibb Leonard Black Henry "Box" Brown John Brown William Wells Brown Peter Bruner (1845 KY – 1938 OH) Ellen and William Craft Hannah Crafts Lucinda Davis Noah Davis Lucy Delaney Ayuba Suleiman Diallo Frederick Douglass Kate Drumgoold Jordan Winston Early (1814 – after 1894) Sarah Jane Woodson Early David George Moses Grandy William Green (19th century MD) William Grimes Josiah Henson Fountain Hughes (1848/1854 VA – 1957) John Andrew Jackson Harriet Ann Jacobs John Jea Thomas James (minister) Paul Jennings (1799–1874) Elizabeth Keckley Boston King Lunsford Lane J. Vance Lewis Jermain Wesley Loguen Solomon Northup John Parker (1827 VA – 1900) William Parker James Robert Moses Roper Omar ibn Said William Henry Singleton Venture Smith Austin Steward (1793 VA – 1860) Venerable Pierre Toussaint (1766 Saint-Dominque – 1853 NY) Harriet Tubman Wallace Turnage Bethany Veney Booker T. Washington Wallace Willis (19th century Indian Territory) Harriet E. Wilson Zamba Zembola (b. c. 1780 Congo) See also Treatment of slaves in the US, Exodus narrative in Antebellum America, Slavery among the indigenous peoples of the Americas

South America	Osifekunde (c. 1795 Nigeria – ? Brazil) Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua (1845–1847, Brazil)

Books

Non-fiction	The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) The Narrative of Robert Adams (1816) American Slavery as It Is (1839) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) The Life of Josiah Henson (1849) Twelve Years a Slave (1853) My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) The Underground Railroad Records (1872) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881) Up from Slavery (1901) The Slave Community (1972)

Fiction	Oroonoko (1688) Sab (1841) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) The Heroic Slave (1852) Clotel (1853) Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856) The Bondwoman's Narrative (1853?–1861?) Our Nig (1859) Jubilee (1966) Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976) Underground to Canada (1977) Kindred (1979) Dessa Rose (1986) Beloved (1987) Middle Passage (1990) Queen: The Story of an American Family (1993) Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons (1996) Walk Through Darkness (2002) The Known World (2003) Unburnable (2006) The Book of Negroes (2007)

Child / Young adult	Amos Fortune, Free Man (1951) I, Juan de Pareja (1965) The Slave-girl from Jerusalem (2007)

Essay

To a Southern Slaveholder (1848)
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853)

African-American literature
Caribbean literature
Films featuring slavery
Songs of the Underground Railroad
Book of Negroes (1783)
Slave Songs of the United States (1867)
The Hemingses of Monticello (2008)

Documentaries

Unchained Memories (2003)
Frederick Douglass and the White Negro (2008)

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