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Welcome to the Wiki for the English 8-2 Literature Circle on Copper Sun by Elka Daroga, Tieg Gielow, Kern Khanna, Katie Mahoney, and Maddie Perlewitz



Coppersun is a great book of a girl named Amari. She was experiencing a great life in her African village Ziavi until slave owneres come and take her to the New World. Amari's parents are killed and her life is crushed. Amari is whipped and forced to follow what the white men say. She eventually arrives to America and is enslaved at a plantation called the Derbyshire Farms. Disastrous events happen at the plantation that force Amari along with an indentured servant named Polly to flee. Polly and Amari try to make it to Fort Mose where there is no slavery. Will they make it there?