Based on a true story, Lawrence Hill’s epic novel spans three continents and six decades, bringing to life a dark and shameful chapter in history through the story of Aminata Diallo. Abducted from her West African village at eleven, sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata seeks freedom, enduring the Revolutionary War in Manhattan, being shipped to Nova Scotia, and embarking on a harrowing return odyssey to Africa after escaping the plantation and being torn from her family.