Cane Warriors

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In Alex Wheatle’s young adult book Cane Warriors we meet fourteen year old Moa who is enslaved on the Frontier sugar cane plantation. He is in the middle of harvest season, he hasn’t seen his mother in over two months because she is serving in the Enslaver’s house and his father also is kept working for long and exhausting hours. With the recent death of a plantation beloved woman Moa starts considering what freedom would feel like. Hidden in plain sight, your cane is a potential weapon that you can bring with you anywhere you go.

The winners of the Diverse Book Awards 2023 have been announced, with one winner from each of the four categories announced: Picture book, Children... I have a feeling that this is only the 2nd historical fiction I have ever read...which I am quite ashamed of. BUT, to be honest, I am quite glad that this was my second. Why, I hear you ask? I shall explain. Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Award 2022 ages 11-14 | Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2021 | Shortlisted for the Iris Award | Longlisted for the YA Jhalak Prize | Longlisted for the YA Diverse Book Award | Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal 2022Coffee house Caffè Nero has announced the 16-strong shortlist for the inaugural Nero Book Awards, recognising the outstanding books of the past 12... But hey - if you are into walking cane self-defense... you'll need that forearm strength anyway. I'd see it as a training opportunity. Plus, once you get used to the Ka-Bar, any wooden cane will feel like a feather. My favorite character is Moa, because of his strong belief in the uprising. However, I like all of the characters that took part in the uprising, because they worked together strongly, and they never gave up, even when continuing to fight would have been their death. Moa gets his mother’s blessing as she wants at least one of her children to be free from slavery, but he doesn’t secure his father’s support, as he stoically believes “It’s better if you stay here and live”.

His mother, a cook in the main house, lives in terror of abuse from the lady of the house, for the tiniest of errors. His father suffered a life-changing work accident, but still has to labour in the same place, where his blood still stains the machinery that he uses every day. Dapo Adeola, Tracy Darnton, Joseph Coelho and Chitra Soundar are among the 19 authors and illustrators longlisted for the Inclusive Books for Child... Long working hours in brutal surroundings, constant whipping for barely any reason, feeding on food scraps provided, separated from his family was Moa’s everyday reality from a young age. Despite his father’s protest of being an only son and “nuh grown to his size yet” Moa joins other “cane warriors” and becomes the youngest among the rebellions who on Easter Sunday organised a series of fights against plantations’ overseers. This was a brilliantly written book; I enjoyed that it was written in dialect. It’s a sad and horrifying story of slavery that needs to be heard by everyone. There were parts where I simply couldn’t stop myself from crying.

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Wed 27 September 7-8pm – Dr Amy Frost, Amanda Egbe and Rob Mitchell: “Historic Buildings & the Slave Trade”– Booking Link American Cane Self Defense is by far the best and most comprehensive cane fighting course available. It is taught by the Grand Cane Master Joe Robaina. Free PDFs And Materials Terrific. A pacy, provocative ode to an important part of Jamaican history from one of our most versatile, trailblazing authors.’ Irenosen Okojie Sales One night one of the men who works with Moa comes to him and explains that the slaves have had enough and on Easter Monday when there are not so many people around they are going to kill the white owners and leave this inhospitable life behind. Moa has been given the task of killing Misser Donaldson, but is he capable of such an act, and what will happen to him and his family when the owners are dead? How will they survive, will others come after them? Alex Wheatle did a brilliant job of bringing Jamaica into my bedroom. I felt as if I was with the main character every step of the way.