Hoe ik mijn vrijheid kocht

The men look at us as if we were animals at the market. They pull on our arms and feel under our clothes. They are testing whether we are healthy. I have never felt so humiliated in my life. Banita too. She hides her face in her hands and groans. We have been sold. As slaves. Obah and his sister Banita have a fine childhood. They grow up 300 years ago, in a village in the African country of Benin. But then they are kidnapped and sold to slave traders. They each get a different owner. From then on, Obah has only one goal: to find his sister Banita. But to do so, he must first free himself ... How I bought my freedom is based on Olaudah Equiano's 1789 book. He was the first enslaved African to write a book about his life