Black Coffee discussion

This is where we will nominate march's group read. The theme is indentured servants; "a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years, especially during the 17th to 19th centuries. Generally, indentured servants included redemptioners, victims of religious or political persecution, persons kidnapped for the purpose, convicts, and paupers."

Please nominate one book that you would like to see on the poll with the theme of indentured servants.

It has to be AAHF right?

Anastasia wrote: "It has to be AAHF right?"

Yes, the monthly group reads are always AAHF but the quarterly ones can be of any genre and culture.

I am nominating Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper.

Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and living in a beautiful village, she could not have imagined everything could be taken away from her in an instant. But when slave traders invade her village and brutally murder her entire family, Amari finds herself dragged away to a slave ship headed to the Carolinas, where she is bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a birthday present.

Survival seems all that Amari can hope for. But then an act of unimaginable cruelty provides her with an opportunity to escape, and with an indentured servant named Polly she flees to Fort Mose, Florida, in search of sanctuary at the Spanish colony. Can the elusive dream of freedom sustain Amari and Polly on their arduous journey, fraught with hardship and danger?

I will nominate


Our Nig

Forgotten for almost 120 years, rediscovered in the 1980s, and now republished with significant new information about the life of its author, Our Nig is a hallmark of American literature. The first novel written by an African American woman, Harriet “Hattie” Wilson, this is the poignant story of Frado, a precocious and determined child who is given away to servitude at the age of six. After the death of her black father, she is abandoned by her destitute white mother to the Bellmont family of Singleton, New Hampshire. Indentured to them in hapless servitude, Frado endures a childhood of deprivation and isolation as an African American child—not quite a slave but certainly not free—in an antebellum New England town.

Londa wrote: "I will nominate


Our Nig

Forgotten for almost 120 years, rediscovered in the 1980s, and now republished with significant new information about the life of..."

See this is why I love this group. This book looks interesting and I probably would never have heard of it otherwise.

kisha wrote: "I am nominating Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper.

Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and living in a beautif..."

Copper sun is a really good read

You all have been eerily quiet here lately in the group. Don't forget to nominate a book for March. I plan to put the poll up on Sunday.

kisha wrote: "This is where we will nominate march's group read. The theme is indentured servants; "a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually s..."
I did it wrong. I will delete my earlier post. Thank you (remember, I'm still new at this :-) )

If you all are having trouble nominating Indentured Servants feel free to nominate any African-American historical fiction. I will leave the nomination open another day for this.

Orphan Train is about orphan who ended up as indentured servants, but this is not AA, they are mostly Irish.