The Long Road Home

<p><strong>The Long Road Home: From the Amistad to Sierra Leone</strong><br><em>By Dr. Elizabeth Carter</em></p><p>Captured beneath the cotton trees of his homeland. Chained in the darkness of the Middle Passage. Forced into a world determined to erase him. Yet still-Sengbe Pieh refused to kneel.</p><p>In this sweeping historical novel inspired by true events <em>The Long Road Home</em> follows Sengbe and his fellow captives from the terror of a midnight raid in Sierra Leone through the brutality of the slave barracoons to the infamous uprising aboard the <em>Amistad</em>. Their fight for freedom shakes the world reaching courtrooms newspaper headlines and the highest chambers of American power.</p><p>But victory is not the end.</p><p>When the survivors finally return to Africa in 1841 they find a homeland scarred by conflict shifting alliances and the lingering shadow of the slave trade. Sengbe-haunted hardened but unbroken-must rediscover his place among his people. Through rebuilding loss war and hope he becomes the leader his village didn't know it needed.</p><p>Spanning continents and decades <em>The Long Road Home</em> is a powerful tale of resistance memory and the unbreakable pull of home. It is a story of a people who refused to be forgotten-and a man who walked back into the sunrise to reclaim everything that was taken from him.</p>