Summary Of The Copper Sun

Imagine you are in africa you were born and raised. But one day people that are different than any you had ever seen show up. These new people kill your family and burn your home. They brand you, and put you on a ship to take you away from everything you know. You arrive at a foreign land where you are sold and tested and thought of as property and nothing more. At night if you were female you got raped often. If you were a male you worked in the rice fields, with the alligators and the snakes and if you ever disobeyed or did something incorrect you were wiped and beaten. In the book the copper sun Amari the female protagonist, goes through these hardships and has to find some reason to live and fight for her freedom. Amari shows traits of perseverance, bravery and strength. But still through all of these things she fights to be free. This story takes place in 1738. The story may be a fictional tale but the reality is things just like this story did happen, and people did go through these
In this new foreign land she was sold to mr.derby. His son clay renames her and rapes her when ever he wants. At this farm she meets polly, tinny, and tidbit. They are other slaves and polly is a indentured servant whose parents died ‘and she was forced to take on their debt. After they disobey mr.derby one day he says he will sell amari, polly, and tidbit, separating him from his mother. On their way into town they escape and head north. They head north because they are looking for a place called fort mose if spanish florida, here they can be free. This journey is not easy they meet several helpful people though these include Nathan, mis.O’reilly, and many others. As Well as these helpful people clay fallows as well at one point he finds them but they manage to escape at eventually make it to the spanish border and to their freedom, were they will start new