Copper sun
by Sharon M. Draper · 2006
Popularity 74
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Juvenile fictionSlaveryFictionIndentured servantsAfrican AmericansHistoryContract laborRapeInterracial friendshipRacismExploitationAfrican-American teenage girls