Fight for Freedom

Locked in a crowded Connecticut jail cell in the winter of 1841, 11-year-old Kali was a world away from Mendeland (present-day Sierra Leone). He missed the wide blue sky and tall palm trees of his village. He missed running and playing with his friends. He wished he could be back home with them, fishing in the river. He thought sadly about his family. So much time had passed since he had seen them.

Along with his 32 cellmates, Kali had been kidnapped in Africa and snatched away from his family by slave traders. The acknowledged leader of the Africans was Sengbe