Read by Michelle Kopacz

Yemaya, an Orisha is a deity in the religion of Africa's Yoruban people, cast into mid-1800s America. We meet Yemaya as a young woman, still in the care of her mother and not yet fully aware of the spectacular power she possesses to protect herself and those she holds dear. The journey laid out here sees Yemaya confront the greatest evils of this era; transcend time and place in search of Obatala, a man who sacrifices his "own" freedom for the chance at hers; and grow into the powerful woman she was destined to become. We travel alongside her in native Africa and on to the New World. Yemaya realizes the fighter within, travels the Underground Railroad in search of the mysterious stranger Obatala, and crosses paths with icons of our history on the road to freedom

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