Copper sun

By Sharon M. Draper

Subjects: Racism, South carolina, fiction, United states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, fiction, Race relations, fiction, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Africans in the United States, Slavery, fiction, Determination in teenage girls, Florida, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Slavery, 1000blackgirlbooks, Fugitive slaves, Survival, Interracial friendship, Indentured servants, Fiction, Teenage slaves, Children's fiction, Cruelty, Fifteen-year-old girls, African americans, history, fiction, African-American teenage girls, Contract labor, Juvenile fiction, Sexual slavery, History, Rape, Escapes, Friendship, Exploitation

Description: Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.