The book Copper sun by Sharon Draper is about a girl named Amari who is a black girl from Africa. In the beginning of the book she is in Africa in her home village when white men showed up and starting killing there people and kidnapping the rest. Amaris brother, mother, and father were all killed. Her future husband Besa survived. Their village was burned to the ground and the dead were burned. The ones who survived were shackled together and forced to walk to the beach where they branded them and prepared them to be shipped. The white men forced them onto a ship and put them bellow deck. They chained the women with the women and the men with the men and put them bellow deck. They would bring the women up on the deck with their ripped clothes,
