She becomes pregnant from an affair with him, but she leaves the village to join a Christian school in Kumasi where she has Akua. James’s daughter Abena is hoping for her childhood friend, Ohene Nyarko to marry her. Meanwhile, Quey’s son James becomes royalty in Africa due to his father’s position as a slave trader however he decides that this isn’t right so he leaves everything behind him and starts anew in Baltimore where he falls in love with another woman who has seven children from a previous marriage called Anna Freeman (Kojo Freeman). She tries to escape slavery with her husband Sam and their baby Kojo, but they are caught by the police and brought back into captivity. In America, Esi’s daughter Ness is enslaved since birth. He would have rather lived an honest life with his friend Cudjo.

Her son, Quey, is forced to do the work of capturing and trading slaves for money. Effia’s husband is an English governor at Cape Castle, which is where slaves are taken to be sold in America that castle also happens to be her father-in-law’s home.Ī woman named Effia was a slave in Ghana. They each inherit a gold stone necklace from their mother, but Esi loses hers in the dungeon of Cape Castle before being shipped away to America as a slave. She then marries and has two daughters: Effia and Esi. She escapes and burns down the village, which was where she had been held captive. The story begins with a girl named Maame who is enslaved. In addition, the ability to tell one’s own story emerges as an important theme throughout the novel. The author uses flashbacks to reveal details about each character’s life, and she shows that there are few absolutes in life. The story is told in the third person by a narrator who shifts between different characters. The book covers seven generations of one family and also tells the story of another tribe in Africa, which has been affected by slavery for hundreds of years. It follows the descendants of this family as they live their lives, and eventually reunite in Ghana after two centuries. Homegoing is a novel about an African family that was split apart by the slave trade. 1-Page Summary of Homegoing Overall Summary

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