The story of the enslaved West Indian women in the struggle for freedom. The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggles for liberation enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical reclamation, Stella Dadzie recovers the lives of women who played a vital role in developing a culture of slave resistance across the Caribbean. Dadzie follows a savage trail from Elmina Castle in Ghana and the horrors of the Middle Passage, as slaves were transported across the Atlantic, to the sugar plantations of Jamaica and beyond. She reveals women who were central to slave rebellions and liberation there are African queens, such as Amina who led a 20,000 strong army, there is Mary Prince sold at twelve years old never to see her sisters or mother again, Asante Nanny the Maroon the legendary obeah sorceress who guided rebel forces in the Blue Mountains during the first Maroon War.