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Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Author(s): Manu Herbstein

Location(s): Ghana

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1775

“I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free; then I was captured and became a slave; but inside me, here and here, I am still a free woman.”
During a period of four hundred years, European slave traders ferried some 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. In the Americas, teaching a slave to read and write was a criminal offense. When the last slaves gained their freedom in Brazil, barely a thousand of them were literate. Hardly any stories of the enslaved and transported Africans have survived.
This novel is an attempt to recreate just one of those stories, one story of a possible 12 million or more.

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