After reading the section summarizing the book I had the feeling that a fast talking auctioneer had delivered the explanation. This is a work of fiction and very complex. The aftermath of slavery led to explicit and implicit segregation that exists a century and a half after slavery was violently ended. Free black persons lived within the structure of the slave trade, no doubt witnessing the plight of people in chains being loaded on ships for transport. Slavery and its aftermath is also very complex because it pitted African tribe against tribe, with the British colonial administration controlling it. This was very profitable for the tribe that engaged in the raid, but it destroyed the social structure. In Africa, a tribe could engage in a raid on another tribe and capture people to be sold to the British as slaves. As the Europeans colonized North America, there was a chronic labor shortage and the cheapest way to do this was to import enslaved Africans. It is simple because it was based solely on economics. The institution of the slave trade from Africa to the Americas is both simple and extremely complex. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience. With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. Analysis of the Themes and Author's Style Inside this Instaread Summary of Homegoing: PLEASE NOTE: This is summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. She knows that as long as people think Effia is premenstrual, she won't be permitted to marry a Fante man, per tribal customs. But to prevent Effia from marrying him, Baaba tells Effia that she must hide the blood from her first period. Effia wants to marry Abeeku Badu, who is in line to be chief. In 1775, when Effia is young, British soldiers from the Cape Coast Castle come to the village. Her adoptive mother, Baaba, immediately resents her, because Effia is the daughter of her father Cobbe's house girl. Effia is born in the late eighteenth century in Fanteland on Africa's Gold Coast, on the night of a devastating fire near her father's compound. The novel begins with the stories of two African half-sisters of the Fante and Asante tribes: Effia and Esi.

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is a novel in stories about the Atlantic slave trade and its aftermath.

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