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Assata: An Autobiography is an autobiography of Assata Shakur.

The book traces her early childhood to the time she was granted political refugee status in Cuba and includes a preface written by Angela Davis and Lennox Hill.

Born in North Carolina and New York, Assata Olugbala Shakur was the granddaughter of strict Southern grandparents.

She had a rebellious daughter to a single mother who taught her how to survive as a Black girl