This historical fiction takes place during the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John Island, then a colony of Denmark.

[1] This was the last novel written by Scott O’Dell, an award-winning writer of children’s historical fiction.

[2] The book tells the story of slavery in the Danish West Indies through the eyes of Raisha, renamed "Angelica" by her new masters.

Betrayed by a rival tribe and shipped to the Caribbean, Raisha, her betrothed Konje and her friend Dondo are bought by Dutch family Jost Van Prok.

In 1733 a portion of the slaves ran away to Mary Island where they planned their widescale revolt, which lasted until mid-1734.