A Summary Of Amari In Copper Sun

In Copper Sun, Amari is a happy teenage and she is a slave. She was engaged to the most handsome man in her African village.

One morning Amari goes outside and her little brother kwasi was hanging from a tree being silly and Amari goes to get her mom some vegetables for breakfast and out of nowhere white men enters Amari’s village setting things on fire and killing people. After a while then men took chained and shackled her and put her into a slave ship. A few weeks later Amari was sold to a man named Mr. Derby, He bought Amari as a birthday present for his son, after Amari he bought a white girl named Polly. Life on the Derby plantation was awful for the both of them. Amari’s and Polly’s bond got stronger after clay started raping Amari.