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Homegoing Questions and Answers
The Question and Answer section for Homegoing is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
"Bad Juju" is most likely referring to Triangular Trade. the shipping business, and the way that slaves were transported. Ma Aku views the business as evil.
He loved the look of those boats, loved that his hands helped build and maintain them,...
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Ness was not allowed to work as a house slave because of the whip marks that remained on her body from punishment at an earlier plantation.
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Son of Kojo and Anna. H is arrested when he is young, and, because he cannot pay bail, he is taken to work in a mine. After he finishes his sentence, he continues working in a mine for pay and joins a union. He misses his woman Ethe, who left him...
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