This saga opens with the mutiny of captured Africans on the Amistad in 1839, follows the path of missionaries who risked their lives to plant schools among emancipated slaves in the South, and culminates with the testimonies of descendants of those who were freed.

Winner of:
2015 Skipping Stones Honor Award, International and Multicultural Books
David Hartsough knows how to get in the way. He has used his body to block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet the enemy in East Berlin, Castro s Cuba, and present-day Iran. He has marched with mothers confronting a violent regime in Guatemala and stood with refugees threatened by death squads in the Philippines. Hartsough s stories inspire, educate, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a...