SuitabookFreedom against enslavement
Kemosha is sold away from her familiar life and escapes while seeking freedom for herself and people she loves.
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Alex Wheatle - Author
This is a high-stakes historical pirate adventure centred on Kemosha’s determination to regain freedom and help people she loves. It offers action, survival, romance and a Black heroine confronting slavery and racial cruelty.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a high-stakes historical pirate adventure centred on Kemosha’s determination to regain freedom and help people she loves. It offers action, survival, romance and a Black heroine confronting slavery and racial cruelty.
Kemosha is sold away from her familiar life and escapes while seeking freedom for herself and people she loves.
Kemosha learns sword fighting and faces violent dangers aboard Captain Morgan’s ship.
Kemosha’s relationship with Isabella appears alongside exploitation of women, prostitution and references to rape.
Expect slavery, racist cruelty, violent attacks, murder, exploitation of women, prostitution and references to rape.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.
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