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1. Amari, a native girl of the village of Ziavi is warned by her future husband, Besa, that white men are coming to their village with Ashanti warriors. All of the natives prepare for a large celebration for when the white men come. 2. In the middle of the celebration, the Ashanti men attack the village, kill Amari’s family and capture her. 3. The white men chain her. She realizes that her family is dead and her village is destroyed, but Besa is alive. They begin their long journey to an unknown place by foot. 4. They finally reach another town where they are locked up in jails. Amari meets Afi, who will help Amari on her long journey. 5. They are inspected, branded, and locked up again. 6. Afi tells Amari that she is a slave and she must forget Besa. The white men come and place the slaves on rowboats which will take them to a slave ship waiting in the water. 7. When they reach the boat, a mother and her daughter jump into the sea where the mother is bit by a shark and both of them disappear from sight. The slaves are then stored in the ship. The storage area for the slaves is disgusting with feces and vomit, and the slaves are stored like books on a bookshelf with little room to move around because they are also chained. 8. The women are taken to the deck and forced to dance so the men could decide which woman would join them in the evening for not such a good reason. One man was looking at her face for the whole time and didn't touch her. 9. The men came to the slave quarters for the women. The man with bright orange hair that was looking at Amari's face took her to a small room. He does not rape her. He is kind to her and teaches her some english, but Afi said she would not be as lucky in following nights. 10. Afi was right, Amari gets raped in a different night. There was a big storm and several people die. One child's arms gets ripped off and she is thrown into the ocean. Her mother jmps in to save her and they both die. 11.The ship is damaged. Afi tells Amari that they are going to Carolina. The slaves are starting to recieve bigger food portions and medical care. The lookout screams landho, land is near. 12.A man comes on board and inspects the women. He is given money by the captain. He will allow the ship to come to the land called Sullivan's Island. 13.They reach land and they are given directions from a black man that is already a slave. They are put on a wooden table for auction. 14. We are introduced to polly, the story now switches to her point of view. She is not very fond of African Americans. She is an indentured servant for Mr. Percival Derbishire, the man who would buy Amari as a present for his son, Clay. 15. Clay is very mean to the slaves and polly. He names Amari Myna. Polly is forced to work with the slaves and teach Amari how to work. 16. Polly begins to train Amari in the english language. The two girls meet Teenie, the cook, and her son Tidbit. IN this chapter, we learn a bit about Polly's family. 17.The story goes back to Amari's point of view. Over the next three months, Amari was working as a slave in the day and pleasing Clay at night. 18. Amari wants to die. She and Teenie talk about their mothers and Teenie tells Amari that Mr. Derby's first wife is dead. 19.Amari, Polly and Tidbit go to get peaches so Teenie can make a pie. On the way there Amari talks about her home and her brother. POlly talks about her family. Amari and Polly become closer friends. 20. Isabelle Derby, Percival's second wife, is nice to the slaves, and all of the slaves like her. She talks to Amari and apologizes about Clay. Isabelle looks pregnant. 21. The story switches back to Polly's point of view. She really wants a position in the house rather than working with the slaves. Polly, Amari and Tidbit go to see Cato who tells them about slaves working with rice before one of the slaves is bitten by a snake.