Captive

By Joyce Hansen

Subjects: African Americans, Slavery, fiction, Slavery, Massachusetts, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Africa, fiction, Slave trade, Juvenile fiction, Slave-trade, History, Sailors

Description: When Kofi's father, an Ashanti chief, is killed, Kofi is sold as a slave and ends up in Massachusetts, where his fate is in the hands of Paul Cuffe, an African American shipbuilder who works to return slaves to their homeland in Africa.