If you can, imagine yourself as a fifteen year old girl who has just witnessed her family’s murder, and has been taken away from her village to be sold to the highest bidder. Her name is Amari, and she was living happily in a village in Africa with her family. She was about to get married to a man named Besa that she loved a lot. Until one day everything had changed for the worse! Her tribe was visited by strange white men, who Amari honestly thought shouldn’t be there, she wasn’t wrong! Your family is murdered right in front of your very own eyes! You become a slave and you don’t understand anything that’s going on anymore. You realize that they speak a different language than you, so you have to try to learn it with the help from people
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Draper,” is set in Ziavi, which is an African village that Amari has grown up in all of her life. Next, she was taken to Cape Coast Castle and was loaded onto a slave ship to go to America. They were then sold to be slaves, and Amari goes to Charlestown, South Carolina. At the end of the book, Amari, Polly, and Tidbit make it to Fort Mose, Florida, where they are to be free now. {This time period was around the 1700’s} The most important plot events in this story include the following events. First, Amari is sold off to the highest bidder named Mr.Derby for his son’s birthday present. She doesn’t know what to do except for hold on to Afi, who is like her motherly figure after becoming a slave. All Amari wanted to do was kill herself or die on the ship, but Afi told her if she does that then the bad men win, and they don’t want that to happen. Amari, Polly, and Tidbit all lived as Mr.Derby’s slaves until one day he found out that Mrs.Derby had had a biracial child, which means that he isn’t the father. He finds out that it was his wife’s slave Noah who is the father to the baby. Mr.Derby murders Noah right in front of Mrs.Derby, as soon as Mrs.Derby knelt down by the baby who was lying on the ground, all she heard was another
Draper,” is set in Ziavi, which is an African village that Amari has grown up in all of her life. Next, she was taken to Cape Coast Castle and was loaded onto a slave ship to go to America. They were then sold to be slaves, and Amari goes to Charlestown, South Carolina. At the end of the book, Amari, Polly, and Tidbit make it to Fort Mose, Florida, where they are to be free now. {This time period was around the 1700’s} The most important plot events in this story include the following events. First, Amari is sold off to the highest bidder named Mr.Derby for his son’s birthday present. She doesn’t know what to do except for hold on to Afi, who is like her motherly figure after becoming a slave. All Amari wanted to do was kill herself or die on the ship, but Afi told her if she does that then the bad men win, and they don’t want that to happen. Amari, Polly, and Tidbit all lived as Mr.Derby’s slaves until one day he found out that Mrs.Derby had had a biracial child, which means that he isn’t the father. He finds out that it was his wife’s slave Noah who is the father to the baby. Mr.Derby murders Noah right in front of Mrs.Derby, as soon as Mrs.Derby knelt down by the baby who was lying on the ground, all she heard was another