Finding Fortune

Finding Fortune

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Finding Fortune

Finding Fortune

$15.95
Sale price  $15.95 Regular price 

Finding Fortune: Documenting and Imagining the Life of Rose Fortune (1774-1864) - by Brenda J. Thompson

The previously untold story of an amazing woman. A daughter of runaway slaves, a Black Loyalist, the first Black police officer, a business woman and a friend of T.C. Haliburton; as a follow-up to her best-selling A Wholesome Horror, Brenda Thompson tells Rose Fortune’s story for the first time.

About the Author

BRENDA J. THOMPSON has been a local history buff and writer all her life. Plays, short stories, press releases, protest chants, non fiction, fiction...nothing escapes her pen. An anti-poverty activist by nature, writer by choice, Brenda has won awards for her writing.

In 2019, Thompson began Moose House Publications to provide an outlet for writers in, and of, rural Nova Scotia.

Brenda lives in Perotte Settlement, near Annapolis Royal.

Author: Brenda J. Thompson
Publisher:  Nimbus Publishing Limited
Copyright ©  2019
ISBN: 9781989347034
Paperback: 130 pages
Dimensions:  6” x 9"

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