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Berry, James.
AJEEMAH AND HIS SON
New York : Willa Perlman, 1992.
IL YA  RL 6.2
ISBN 0064405230

Ajeemah and his son Atu are enjoying their walk through the African forest. Atu has told his father that he and Sisi will be married. Ajeemah is very happy for the young couple. Little do they know that their entire lives will never be as they imagine. Out of the forest come slave traders who capture the two men and take them to a ship. The men are exposed to horrors while on the ship. When they arrive in Jamaica, they are sold separately. Follow the stories of two men who are forced to live their lives as someone's slave. How will the two men cope with the injustice heaped on them?

SUBJECTS:       Slavery -- Jamaica -- Fiction
                        Fathers and sons -- Fiction
                        Jamaica -- Fiction


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