Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons
{{short description|1996 historical novel by Ann Rinaldi}}
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{{Infobox book |
| name = Hang a Thousand trees with Ribbons
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| translator =
| image = Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = Ann Rinaldi
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| country = United States
| language = English
| series = Great Episodes
| genre = Historical novel
| publisher = Scholastic
| pub_date = 1996
| media_type = Print (Paperback)
| pages = 352 pp
| isbn = 0-15-200876-4
| congress= PZ7.R459 Han 1996
| oclc= 34150871
| 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. Ann Rinaldi's vivid portrayal of the first African American poet is set against the backdrop of the American War of Independence, so there is a double theme of search for liberty in the novel.
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Category:American historical novels
Category:Novels about American slavery
Category:Novels by Ann Rinaldi
Category:Novels set in the 18th century
Category:Fiction about the Atlantic slave trade
Category:Novels set during the American Revolutionary War
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