in the Caribbean and the USA
Beginning in Africa in 1600, tells the history of the capture and enslavement of Africans and their lives and achievements in the Americas, with concise biographies of Mansa Kankan Musa, Olaudah Equiano, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Soujourner Truth, W.E.B. DuBois, Harriet Tubman, and many more.