From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning author Kwame Alexander, comes the first book in a searing, breathtaking trilogy that tells the story

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Zac lives with his grandfather, Pops. When Pops is killed by muggers, Zac is devastated. Dumped with foster parents, then in an orphanage, Zac stumbles from tro

Looks at the history of Goree Island, which was used as a holding area by slavetraders for their captives

The book situates the slave forts, slave castles and dungeons of Ghana in the history of the Atlantic Slave trade to argue that these sites of historical memory