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Historical Fiction
Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. From the Fante and Asante nations wrestling with the slave trade and British colonization to the plantations of the South and the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, follow the descendants of both sisters and watch how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.
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