My name is Esperanca Garcia.  Everybody has a a story, and so do I...

Esperanca Garcia was a slave who lived on a cotton farm run by Jesuit priests in Brazil—until the day she was separated from her husband and older children and taken, with her two little ones, to be the cook in another household. There her life became much, much harder. In desperation, and with extraordinary courage, Esperanca wrote a letter to the governor describing how she and her children were being mistreated and asking permission to return to the farm.

Beautifully illustrated, this true story provides a very personal look at the history of slavery in the Americas.

From the dust jacket