How could he talk about Great-Grandpa H's story without also talking about his grandma Willie and the millions of other black people who had migrated north, fleeing Jim Crow? And if he mentioned the Great Migration, he'd have to talk about the cities that took that flock in. She can glimpse the ships from her window.“Originally, he'd wanted to focus his work on the convict leasing system that had stolen years off of his great-grandpa H's life, but the deeper into the research he got, the bigger the project got. When Effia moves to the castle, she learns about the slave trade. Before Effia leaves with James, Baaba gives her a black stone pendant. Baaba convinces Abeeku to give up waiting for Effia to bleed and to let her marry James instead. Soon Effia meets James Collins, the governor of Cape Coast Castle. In fact, Baaba wants Effia to marry a British man so that Effia will be sent away from the village. She knows that as long as people think Effia is premenstrual, she won’t be permitted to marry a Fante man, per tribal customs.
But to prevent Effia from marrying him, Baaba tells Effia that she must hide the blood from her first period. Effia wants to marry Abeeku Badu, who is in line to be chief. In 1775, when Effia is young, British soldiers from the Cape Coast Castle come to the village. Her adoptive mother, Baaba, immediately resents her, because Effia is the daughter of her father Cobbe’s house girl. Effia is born in the late eighteenth century in Fanteland on Africa’s Gold Coast, on the night of a devastating fire near her father’s compound. The novel begins with the stories of two African half-sisters of the Fante and Asante tribes: Effia and Esi.
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is a novel in stories about the Atlantic slave trade and its aftermath.
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