Ajeemah and His Son

In 1807, Ajeemah and his son Atu are traveling through their West African homeland to deliver a bride-price when slave traders capture them. They are forced across the Atlantic to Jamaica and sold to neighboring plantations, close enough to imagine reunion but separated by enslavement. Their paths show different efforts to preserve dignity, memory, and a sense of freedom under brutal conditions. James Berry's short historical novel centers the interior lives of a father and son whose family and future have been taken from them.