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    Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

    By Manu Herbstein

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    Winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book. Thrust into a foreign land, passed from owner to owner, stripped of her identity. This is the life of Nandzi, who was given the name Ama, a name strange to her and her tribal culture. A life of struggle and resignation, bondage and freedom, passion and indifference, intense love and remorseless hate. Though forced into desperation, Ama never lets her soul be consumed by fear. While the stories of individual slaves have been blurred into one mass, Ama’s story personifies the experience of eighteenth-century Africans in an unforgettable way. Her entrancing story of defiance and spiritual fire starts from the day she is brutally seized, raped, and enslaved, and ends with her breathing the pure air of freedom. Ama is a deeply engrossing and colorful novel, packed with violence, sex, and action. The resilience of her spirit will grip readers from the first page to the last of Manu Herbstein’s spellbinding novel.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateApr 1, 2014
    ISBN9781497611849
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    • 5/5
      This book is meticulously researched and full of historical details with resonance for the story. I learned a great deal about the circumstances of the slave trade and the varying circumstances of slaves from different regions and tribes. The book requires fairly slow, careful reading, but definitely rewards the patient reader.
    • 5/5
      This is the story of Nandzi. Carried off as a slave and passed though the hands of African tribes, Dutch traders, English traders and Brazlian plantation oweners, she is not even allowed to keep her name. Ama, is the first of the new names imposed on her by successive owners to suit their convenience. Ama is more than a novel, it is a history of the Atlantic slave trade. Though the writing is sometimes a little sensational for history and a little historical for fiction, it reads easily and is a gripping account of a worthy and likeable heroine. More than any other history or novel on the subject, this book has convinced me that I should visit West Africa and see the chambers in which my ancestors were tortured and brought to the place where our new history began.