Title: Copper sun
First published: 2006
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.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Slavery, Fiction, Indentured servants, African Americans, History, Contract labor, Rape, Interracial friendship, Racism, Exploitation, African-American teenage girls, Friendship, Fifteen-year-old girls, Africans in the United States, Escapes, Survival, Determination in teenage girls, Cruelty, Fugitive slaves, Teenage slaves, Sexual slavery, 1000blackgirlbooks, Children's fiction, Slavery, fiction, African americans, fiction, South carolina, fiction, Florida, fiction, African americans, history, fiction, United states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Race relations, fiction
Places: South Carolina, 1565-1763 Spanish colony, Florida
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 18th century, Spanish colony, 1565-1763