In the tradition of Copper Sun and Chains, this is the stirring tale of a girlâs journey from Africa to freedom and from youth to womanhood, as recounted in this dazzling debut novel.
Ayanna Bahati lives in a small African village when she is brutally kidnapped, along with her brother, and forced onto a slave ship to America. As Ayanna, renamed Anna, rises from the cotton fields to the masterâs house, she finds the familial love sheâs been yearning for in elderly Mary and Maryâs son Danielâbut she is also faced with more threats to her survival.
Risking everything to escape the plantation, Anna manages to make it north and to freedom, eventually settling in the free black community of Hudson, Ohio, and educating herself to become a teacher.