Summary Of Sharon M. Draper's Copper Sun

In the book Copper Sun ,by Sharon M. Draper , Amari is a fifteen year old African girl who lives in Ziavi Africa. Amari is an innocent and curious girl who cannot wait to be an adult like her father and mother. Everything is going as planned until a group of white men come to her village. They thought it was friendly but the white men had other intentions as to invade them. Many Africans, if not killed, were captured and taken to America to be used as slaves. Amari had not experienced anything like this and was afraid and confused about what was going on. She had no idea why these men and their friends, of the neighboring tribe, were here to take them away. Amari is observant, strong-willed and brave. During her journey she is unaware of …show more content…
It talks about the slaves and their journey from their homelands to America. This journey is not an easy and luxurious it is awful and long. Many of them die and are raped before every reaching their destination and thats just the start of it all. Once they are sold to the Slaveowners they will work from sunset to sunrise. If they are not there in time they are beaten. If they work to fast or to slow, if they do nothing wrong at all but the master feels as though they did they are beaten. They do this with barely any clothes or food and no proper place to live. Being a women slave was the worst. Women had to be aware that they could get called into the masters house at night and do as he wants without fighting back. Many of their children were children from rape and became slaves as well or sold off to other slaveholders. Slaves were not to be taught to read or to write but was expected to know what the master was telling them what to do at that very second. Slavery in the city was better than slavery on the plantation. On the plantation it was long hard hours and in the city its wasn 't as hard but still awful. Amari and the others from the book relate to history because they had experienced all of