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Yaa Gyasi
Slavery tore communities, friends and even families apart, giving rise to so many stories like the one Yaa Gyasi tells here - of two sisters from Ghana, separated against their will and mistreated by colonial white men. One, Effia, marries a wealthy slaver; the other, Esi, is sold into slavery and taken to America. We follow the sisters, and then their descendents, in Africa and America as they flourish and falter through the American Civil War, abolition, poverty and prejudice, right up to the modern day.