Summary

"Toubab with black face {Freetown, 1792}"

On the ship the Lucretia, 36 years after she was originally taken from her village and put on a slave ship, Aminata arrives in the Sierra Leone colony known as Freetown. Aminata and her peers find out that while slave trading is forbidden in Sierra Leone, the practice continues on Bance Island, 18 miles away. Clarkson reminds everyone that "We will thrive with farming, industry and trade, and find our own ways to serve the British Empire" (527). Thomas Peters, a black man who had traveled to London two years earlier to complain about the lack of land in Nova Scotia, protests: "We didn't leave our homes in Nova Scotia to serve the British. We came to Africa to be free" (527). Clarkson...