Let Us Descend

On a slave plantation in the Carolinas, Annis has survived in the light of her mother’s resilience, comforted by stories of her African warrior grandmother. Everything she knows, she learned from her mother – how to fight, how to be strong, how to grow up in a world shrouded in darkness. But when she is sold by the white enslaver who fathered her, Annis must venture onward alone, through the rich but unforgiving landscapes of the American South and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.