Freedom! the Untold Story of Benkos Bioho and the World's First Maroons: A True Story - Paperback

by Kofi Leniles (Author), Kmt Shockley (Author), Iroupa Keinkede (Illustrator)

Benkos Bioho was a real person who lived during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was born into a royal family. He was captured by slave traders and sold into slavery. He managed to escape along with other slaves and soon created the land Palenque in 1603.