Copper sun

By Sharon M. Draper

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

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.