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Gisli Palsson
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| #1148463 in Books | 2016-09-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.20 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 264 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Non-fiction but reads like fiction|By Kristjan Ingvarsson|The book reads like a novel but it is entirely based on facts. Hans Jonathan, a 7 year old son of a slave, and therefore a slave himself, moves from the Danish Virgin Island of St. Croix to Kopenhagen in Denmark, where he becomes a war hero. For that he gets his freedom from the Danish king but his "owner" wins the case||
“An intriguing work of microhistory. . . . Through this engaging tale of one man’s attempts to find a home as a man of color in nineteenth-century Scandinavia, Palsson uses Jonathan’s previously obscure but picaresque life as a lens thro
The island nation of Iceland is known for many things—majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood—but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family in early nineteenth-century Iceland, is improbable and compelling, the stuff of novels. In The Man Who Stole Himself, Gisli Palsson l...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan | Gisli Palsson.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
