While on his first hunt with his father, Kimbo is kidnapped from the jungles of Africa to become a slave in 19th century America. Sold like property to various masters, he escapes after a master enters him in a boxing match against another slave, a killer called Barnyard Willie. In the midst of his escape he comes across a little white girl who's lost in the woods, at which time kidnappers grab him and the girl. They're held by the kidnappers until 'nobody' sets them free. Captured again after getting the girl to safety, a Paddy Roller claims him from the local jail and delivers him to a master who attempts to kill him after he attempts to run off with a kitchen girl to the Underground Railroad. Kimbo is saved from a deadly beating and redeemed from bondage by an old preacher who stands up to the master, and shows him what true freedom really is.Here is an excerpt from the book:"Dust filled the air, and there was shouting from many directions as we struggled. I didn't understand their voices, but I cried out to them to tell them that they'd made a mistake, thinking they were hunting for animals. I shouted that we were men just like them, but it did no good, and they kept wrestling with me as I struggled to break free of their nets. When I was tired and could no longer move, I saw them smiling down at me with contempt in their eyes. It was clear from their faces that it was no mistake at all that they caught us, but I did not understand why. I screamed again for them to let us go, asking over and over for them to let us go free. "Leave us alone! You have no right to do this to us! Let us go now!" They ignored my shouts and continued smiling at me, almost laughing at me, and this made my blood boil. "Why do you hate me when you don't even know me? We've done nothing to you! Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this to us?" I would not learn the answer to my questions until sometime later when slavery was explained to me at the end of a whip. I turned to see where my father was but could not see him through the dust still surrounding us. Perhaps he got away and went for help I hoped. But in another moment, I saw him some distance away, caught in his own net with a group of men gathered around him, kicking at him as he struggled, until finally there was no more fight left in him. "Father! Father!" I screamed out to him through my tear-filled eyes, but he did not answer me, or perhaps he couldn't, I don't know. I strained to go to him, but the men holding the net that trapped me would not permit it. For several moments, I feared that he was dead, and my beating heart seemed almost to stop. I couldn't breathe again until I saw him still struggling to try and stand. A couple of the men pulled me out of the net that covered me, and when I tried to resist them again in my attempt to go to my father, I was hit in the back of the legs with a wooden club, bringing me quickly to my knees. They grabbed hold of my arms and fastened metal bands linked together by chains, around my wrists. Although I am well familiar with the feel of steel against my skin now, I'd never seen anything like those strange devices before that day."No matter what I did, there was no hope of getting out of them, and the men gladly let me try until I finally stopped fighting. As I stared at the men, I could feel the anger raging in my blood. I wanted to hurt them, even to kill them, but I could do nothing thanks to my small size and my large fear. I was angry and terrified, sorry and ashamed, and nothing I could do could help us now or stop the tears falling down my face over what I'd done to us. Strangely dressed with coverings on their feet, they were just like the men Padera and I had watched carrying the animal cages out of the jungle, and although they were of different sizes and shapes, they all looked the same to me. Their skin was pale, almost white, and their hair was straight and of colors like... "

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