The novel tells the story of a young African woman captured and enslaved in northern Ghana in the late eighteenth century as she passes through Yendi, Kafaba, Kumase, Elmina, the Middle Passage and Bahia. The web-site contains texts and references relevant to the time and places in which the novel is set; and also material on relevant issues such as racism, reparations, the teaching of slavery and the slave trade and African involvement in the slave trade.