{"publishers": ["Oxford University Press"], "subtitle": "a graphic history", "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223098481410", "urn:sfpl:31223098481402", "urn:sfpl:31223098481444", "urn:sfpl:31223098481436", "urn:sfpl:31223098481428", "urn:bwbsku:P7-ENF-856", "urn:bwbsku:T1-ASQ-945"], "full_title": "Abina and the important men a graphic history", "lc_classifications": ["KRX46.M36 .G48 2012", "KRX46.M36 G48 2012", "KRX46.M36.G48 2011"], "key": "/books/OL25060844M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL1515236A"}], "publish_places": ["New York"], "contributions": ["Clarke, Liz"], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "pagination": "xix, 179 p. :", "source_records": ["marc:marc_loc_updates/v39.i41.records.utf8:10628521:943", "marc:marc_loc_updates/v39.i42.records.utf8:9019311:943", "marc:marc_loc_updates/v39.i45.records.utf8:12287405:942", "marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run04.mrc:177044084:2791", "bwb:9780199844395", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part38.utf8:198591800:956", "ia:abinaimportantme0000getz", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-03-17", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.13.20150123.full.mrc:211319985:2383", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-019.mrc:133182347:1230", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-05-21", "idb:9780199844395", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_038.bib.mrc:155494629:3553"], "title": "Abina and the important men", "dewey_decimal_class": ["306.3/62092"], "number_of_pages": 179, "isbn_13": ["9780199844395"], "edition_name": "1st ed.", "lccn": ["2011031033"], "subject_places": ["Ghana"], "subjects": ["History", "Trials, litigation", "Law and legislation", "Slavery", "Women slaves", "Comic books, strips"], "subject_people": ["Abina Mansah"], "publish_country": "nyu", "publish_date": "2012", "by_statement": "Trevor R. Getz, Liz Clarke", "subject_times": ["19th century"], "works": [{"key": "/works/OL16183985W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "covers": [12184890], "ocaid": "abinaimportantme0000getz", "oclc_numbers": ["743432533"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "This is an illustrated \"graphic history\" based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina, who was wrongfully enslaved and took her case to court. The main scenes of the story take place in the courtroom, where Abina strives to convince a series of \"important men\"-- a British judge, two Euro-African attorneys, a wealthy African country \"gentleman,\" and a jury of local leaders --that her rights matter."}, "latest_revision": 14, "revision": 14, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2011-10-23T15:40:51.996616"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-04T08:37:42.612313"}}