Sarah's Song
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Sarah, the daughter of two Fante kidnapped in their adolescence and sold into slavery, grows up on a plantation in Virginia, learning that nothing is more valuable than family. As an adult, how far will this phenomenal woman go to rescue a brother stolen by slave catchers? With her country denying freedom to her neighbors, how can her fabulously wealthy Quaker friend refuse the opportunity to embark on the adventure of a lifetime?
Sarah’s Song is the first installment of the trilogy, Esi Was My Mother, which runs from Esi and Kofi’s 1795 capture in West Africa until the firing of shots at Fort Sumter. The premier inspiration for Sarah’s Song was the true, culture-bending love story between an escaped slave from Culpeper, Virginia and a direct descendant of the Penn, Crispin, Stockton, and Wycliffe families. Another influence was family oral history about Sarah's brothers’ rejection of the racism they experienced in Ohio.
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