africans

Describes the spread of Africans to the western hemisphere and the influences and development of their culture.

Frances Scott, the penniless niece of an English lord, agrees to marry Bristol trader Josiah Cole, an arrangement that provides her with a home and him with the social contacts he needs to build his business. However, she is forced to confront her need for love and liberty when Josiah brings the slave Mehuru to their house and assigns her the task of training the man, a former priest and aide to the King of Yoruba, to become a house servant.

An Alaskan wolf and an African boy, meeting at a zoo in "The Other World," read in one another's eye the hardships each has faced, and their understanding helps to bring healing to them both.

Documents the author's decade-long search for identity and a place of belonging as inspired by African-American and Jewish history as well as the exoduses of black communities that left ancestral homes in search of "promised lands.".

A poem and portraits of children illustrate the shared beauty and heritage of people of African descent living throughout the world.

The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.

While his mother and father help a family of African refugees, Jared learns that the people he counts on for doing good deeds are not always praiseworthy and is faced with a decision which may have implications for all.