Independent Bookshop Week: Breaking the Maafa Chain by Dr Anni Domingo
For Independent Bookshop Week we’ve twinned with Jacaranda Books an award-winning independent, black-owned publisher and bookseller of adult fiction, non-fiction & Young Adult Fiction. Each day of the week we will be celebrating and promoting a different title by Jacaranda.
Today’s title ‘Breaking the Maafa Chain’ is a novel based on the real life story of two sisters separated when they were sold into slavery and ending up on different continents.
Order your copy today directly through October Books or buy online through our bookshop store and we’ll get a commission on your purchase.
Pre-order now: Breaking the Maafa Chain by Dr Anni Domingo
Hardback RRP £16.99
Released: 16/09/21
Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to America was an illegal but lucrative business
Nineteenth century-Two sisters, Fatmata and Salimatu, are captured and sold separately into slavery. Forced to change their names to Faith and Sarah, they end up in two different countries with opposite slavery laws. Faith ends up in America, where slavery is still legal and slaves don't have any rights. Sarah ends up in a Victorian England and as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria. Can the two sisters reclaim their freedom and identity in a world that is trying to break them down and mold them to its coloniser's will?
Based on the true story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Breaking the Maafa Chain will take the readers on a journey of loss, survival, hope, identity and tradition.
Order your copy today directly from October Books or buy online through our bookshop store and we’ll get commission on your purchase.
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