![]() ![]() Collins pays Effia's father 30 pounds and takes Effia to the Cape Coast Castle. Effia is 15 years old when she attracts the attention of James Collins, the newly appointed British governor. The story begins in Ghana's coastal Fanteland in the mid-1700s with two beautiful half sisters who don't know of each other. This is one of the many issues that Homegoing explores so powerfully. She's merely asking us to consider the tangled chains of moral responsibility that hang on our history. That characterization should make us squirm not least because it's an argument used by Southern apologists eager to dilute the unique horror of American slavery: Everybody was doing it even Africans were doing it! But, of course, that isn't at all Gyasi's point. ![]() Gyasi, who was born in Ghana and immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 2, has spoken of Ghanaians' "complicity" with the British slave trade. ![]()
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