NOW LET ME FLY : THE STORY OF A SLAVE FAMILY New York :
Macmillan, IL 3-6 RL 5.1 hears the drumbeat and knows that
something big is happening. She runs into her house where she
can be safe. The drumbeats mean that Dongo, the slave trader, is
in the area. Dongo is caught and told to stay away from the
village but he appears again and Minna does not escape him this
time. Forced to walk a great distance to the ocean, Minna is
eventually put on a ship to America. During the three month
voyage, Minna makes friends with Amadi. The two children are
sold together and go to work in the cotton fields. As the two
children grow up together, they fall in love and request
permission to marry. Can anyone who is forced to live as a slave
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