Basusu

Its close to midnight in Odu, Ghana, on March 20, 1841. The village, draped in darkness, soon erupts into chaos. White men set fire to the homes, and as the townspeople flee the men capture, manacle, and kidnap dozens of strapping young men, the villages best and its promise for the futurefourteen-year-old Basusu Mensua among them. His fate is sealed.

Basusu, determined to be strong as the son of ...