Ajeemah and His son offers a different view of the African slave trade because it focuses on Jamaican plantation slavery rather than on slavery in the southern United States. It covers the period from the year before the importation of African slaves was outlawed to a period after slavery was altogether outlawed in Jamaica.
The history that forms the setting for the novel is accurate and not sensationalized. Ajeemah and Atu are kidnaped by other Africans and sold by them to ship owners who transport them to Jamaica, where thy are sold to plantation owners. The entire degrading process is vividly dramatized by the.....
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