Amos was taken from Africa when he was fifteen years old. His father was a king, he the prince, and his little lame sister the princess. She was supposed to be killed and given to the gods because she was lame, but here father sacrificed his favorite dog instead of his daughter. The night the village was celebrating the coming spring, and harvest time, slave catchers shot there guns in the air, one of the bullets killed Amos's father the king. He ran to his sister and grabbed hold of her hand and held on tight, when the men came to take him, they could not break them apart. Finally the pulled her away, and took Amos. The ship they traveled on was deplorable, the conditions they lived in were a place nobody should ever live in. The hold was so small they…show more content… They finally sold all but twenty of their slaves, Amos was among the twenty. When he arrived on the action block, they started bidding on him, a man came forward and afford thirty pounds for him. He was then sold to a man by the name of Caleb Copeland. Him and his wife were Christians, and taught him about God, later he did accept God as his Saviour, and taught him how to read, write, and cipher. Caleb died before he could give Amos his freedom. Amos a was then sold to a man by the name of Ichabod Richardson, he was a nice man and treated Amos well. Every time a slave action took place, Amos was there, looking for his sister, he never did find her. After Amos earned his freedom, he bought property, and went to work as a tanner. It took four years to establish his tannery, after that he bought a black lady named Lily, married her and gave her her freedom. She died a year later. Amos again wanted to marry, this time the lady he wanted to marry was a cripple like his sister. Her leg had been broken so she couldn't escape, it never healed right. Although Amos didn't have enough of money to buy her at the time, he worked for three years, he married Lidia, but she too
