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slj.com | Ann Richards |Ashleigh Williams
. (Orca Biography). May 2025. 104p. Tr $24.99. ISBN 9781459838444. COPY ISBN Gr 3-7–Richards’s entry in the “Orca Biography” series centers Edmond Albius, the enslaved Black boy whose botanical discovery revolutionized the vanilla industry to this day. Born in 1829 on a sugar plantation on Réunion Island, Albius was sent at age five to the small plantation of Ferréol Bellier-Beaumont, a skilled botanist who taught Albius everything he knew.
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