by Sharon M. Draper
I decided to read this book because I had read, and enjoyed other books by the same author. This book is also exceptionally good.
It tells the story of a young african girl, how she was humiliated and traded as a slave, was transported to America and was bought as the plaything of the teenage son of the owner of a rice plantation. She escaped with a little boy, and a white girl who was a servant, and they managed to get to a place in Florida which was ruled by the Spaniards and where runaway slaves were considered to be free.
This is historical fiction. It provides vivid descriptions of slavery, indentured servants, rice plantations in South Carolina in the Colonial period (1600 - 1775), the Spanish Colony in Florida (1565 - 1763) and of African Americans in the 18th century.
