Amma is the creator god, the master of life and death, and he is
worried. His people have always known how to take care of the
spirits of the dead - the "nyama "- so that they don't become
destructive forces among the living. But amid the chaos of the
African slave trade and the brutality of American slavery, too many
of his people are dying and their souls are being ignored in this
new land. Amma sends a young man, Ekundayo, to a plantation in
Virginia where he becomes a slave on the eve of the Civil War. Amma
hopes that Ekundayo will be able to find a way to bring peace to
the "nyama "before it is too late. But Ekundayo can see only sorrow
in this land - sorrow in the ownership of people, in the slaves who
have been separated from their children and spouses, in the
restless spirits of the dead, and in his own forbidden relationship
with his master's daughter.
How Ekundayo finds a way to bring peace to both the dead and the
living makes this an unforgettable journey into the slave
experience and Julius Lester's most powerful work to date. "Time's
Memory" is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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