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A Brief Summary Of Sharon M. Draper's Copper Sun
Copper Sun written by Sharon M. Draper, starts in a quiet village in Africa focusing on a young girl that has only seen 15 summers. Strange white men attack her only home and take her away from everything she has ever known. She is boarded on a ship to be taken away to a new land named America. She meets a young girl by the name of Polly. Polly does not take an interest in Amari right away. Polly is a white girl at the age of 15, as well as Amari, and she was taught to not interact with the slaves because they hold no emotions she also has an indenture. As months pass Amari and Polly slowly but eventually become friends, they grow to like each other more and more. As Amari and Polly go throughout their days working for their Massa, they find
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