Africa Is My Home: A Child of the Amistad - Historical Fiction Book About Slavery & Freedom - Perfect for Classroom Studies & Black History Month

This is a beautiful book, sensitively written. I read it to the kids (ranging from 1st-5th grade) at our homeschool coop and they were all enthralled. I like that it describes, not just the horrors of being enslaved, but the experience of life in Africa beforehand, the different ways white Americans responded to them (some with racism, some with kindness and justice), the faith that helped sustain them, and the experience of returning to Africa afterwards. I loved that it is the story of what we know of an actual woman's life, and that it includes the fact that former president John Quincy Adams defended the rebels in court.