Friendlytown Trilogy
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Violet's Dance
Patricia Moffett (Illustrator)
On April 25, 1841, the brig Raven sailed into New York City from Cape Palmas, West Afrika. Passengers Robert and Patricia Wringle were home again, but with them was sixteen-year-old Adeoha Adetoye. It was a time when the abolitionist forces and the Women's movement joined arms. For the next 50 years, Adeoha would meet, mingle, and arrive with these young men and women of progress.
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Leaving Dahomey is set in 1840 in the ancient West Afrikan Kingdom of Dahomey. Our story centers around the people in their everyday lives and occupations, the applique workers, the calabash makers, pottery makers, storytellers, makers of verse, the needleworkers/ designers, the smiths, and the cultivators. The story follows a year in the life of a fifteen-year-old hammock-borne, Adeoha, and her connection to a Vodun prophecy of a magical oracle that will appear in time.
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Dahomean Chant
Jude Shaw has lived in the iconic Queensbridge Houses in New York City, USA, the past forty-five years. There he founded and operated a 501(c)(3), nonprofit, youth services organization featuring STEM programming and Queensbridge Park maintenance programs for nearly twenty years from the outset of the 1980s through 2000, which inspired Friendlytown Trilogy.
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Jude Shaw
