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Gr 5–10—The first segment of this three-part program is an account of Ama, an African Ashanti girl captured from her village in the 1850s to be sold into slavery in America. Live-action footage, photographs, maps, and narrated illustrations document Ama's capture and separation from her family, middle passage across the Atlantic to America, the trials and tribulations of being a slave and living in bondage under a brutal South Carolina farmer, and the perils associated with escaping to Canada to gain freedom via the Underground Railroad. Middle school-age girls act out...Log In or Sign Up to Read More