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The Heritage Keeper

By Jacqueline Leigh
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By Jacqueline Leigh
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It is the 1830s, and Fima and her mother are rice traders on the West Coast of Africa in the Sherbro River area: a network of mouths of rivers, mangrove mudflats and shifting sandbars where traders can load captives in secret onto vessels whose captains take them across the Atlantic for sale as slaves on auction blocks. Sherbro's rich agricultural hinterland can produce enough rice to maintain the thousands of slaves kept captive in barracoons during the weeks and months they are waiting to...

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Teens & YATeen FictionHistorical Fiction - Teen FictionAfrica->Teen fiction