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Two half-sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana.
Effia, a beautiful girl in the Asante tribe, is married off to a British officer who oversees slave trafficking at a fortress on the Gold Coast. At the same time, Esi is captured and lands in America as a slave on a Southern plantation. Individual chapters take readers chronologically through pivotal historical moments and up to the present in this debut novel.
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