In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Folklore
Settings: Africa, Mali, Northern America, South Carolina, United States of America, Western Africa
Ethnicity: Malian
Gender: Boy/Man
Race/Culture: Black/African/African American
Character Prominence: Dominant Main, Secondary