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Ghana, eighteenth century: two half-sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One marries an Englishman and lives a life of comfort in the Cape Coast Castle, while the other is captured in a raid, imprisoned in the same castle, and sold into slavery. The narrative follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations, spanning from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, the American Civil War, and Jazz Age Harlem, illust...