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Kofi’s world shatters when his father, a respected Ashanti chief, is killed. He is taken as a slave and sent across the Atlantic to Massachusetts. There he meets Paul Cuffe, a pioneering African‑American shipbuilder who works tirelessly to return American‑captured slaves to their homeland in Africa. The story traces Kofi’s struggle for freedom and the courageous mission of Cuffe in a turbulent era of the trans‑Atlantic slave trade.
First publish date: 1994
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Joyce Hansen
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