As she struggles to hold on to her memories, she also begins to learn English and make friends with a white indentured servant named Molly. Now survival is all Amari can dream about. There she was bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a "birthday present." Her family was brutally murdered as she was dragged away to a slave ship and sent to be sold in the Carolinas.
But that was what happened when her village was invaded by slave traders. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and fortunate enough to live in a beautiful village, it never occurred to her that it could all be taken away in an instant. Reading Group GuideĪmari's life was once perfect. The hope of a new life is all that keeps them going, but Florida feels so far away and sometimes Amari wonders how far hopes and dreams can really take her. Along the way, their strength is tested like never before as they struggle against hunger, cold, wild animals, hurricanes, and people eager to turn them in for reward money. When an opportunity to escape presents itself, Amari and Molly seize it, fleeing South to the Spanish colony in Florida at Fort Mose. Now, survival is all Amari can dream about. There she was bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a "birthday present".
Draper tells the epic story of a young girl torn from her African village, sold into slavery, and stripped of everything she has ever known-except hope.Īmari's life was once perfect. In this “searing work of historical fiction” ( Booklist), Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Sharon M.
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