The captive
By: Joyce Hansen
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780590416252
Subjects: Slave trade; Juvenile fiction; African Americans; Slavery; Fiction
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.
Notes: Coretta Scott King Honor, author, 1995.