Mr. Derby finally allows Amari into the house as a server. Everything goes well until Amari trips over Mr. Derby’s foot and drops blackberry pie all over the floor.This of course enrages Mr. Derby, his response is “you stupid black wench! Lena go get my whip!”^[1] Mr. Derby then beat Amari unconscious, and because of the spill he is now sending her to work in the swampy rice fields. After Amari is well Mr. Derby instructs Teenie, a cook and the mother of Tidbit, to send Amari to the rice fields. Teenie knows this is not a suitable place for Amari because there were crocodiles and alligators so Teenie began to conduct an escape route for her. Amari then meets a man, Mr.. , who has been working on this plantation for as long as he could remember. He instructs Amari to go south instead of north because if she was to go north, north would be the first place they would come to look for them. Shortly after this, Mrs. Derby’s baby is born, good news but one problem, the baby is colored. Mrs. Derby, Teenie, Amari, and Polly try to dispose of the baby and tell Mr.Derby that Mrs. Derby had a stillbirth. This would have worked but he insisted that would like to see the baby whether it was dead or alive. When he lays eyes on the baby Mr. Derby kills the baby in front of everybody and then kills Noah, the servant and the father of the baby. After this event Amari, Tidbit, and Polly become runaways and head south to a place called Saint Fort Mose in Florida for freedom. On their journey Amari becomes sick and they think its because of the berries they’ve been eating. They also meet a boy named Nathan, he lets them stay in his barn but his father finds them and threatens to turn them in for the money. Nathan quickly returns and sets them free by suggesting that Polly has to hit him and then he instructs them to run. Of course they do it but Polly is a little sad because she had a crush on him. They get away and then they are discovered again, this time, by Clay. He tells them of his father’s death ominously “the doctor said it was his heart but I believe he was poisoned”, and he begins to capture them but Polly shoots him and when he awake he is bitten by a Copperhead snake and he dies. This was a sign of relief for the three of them so without exchanging any more words they ran off. Finally they come across the spanish soldier, Domingo Salvador, who guides them in the direction of Sain Fort Mose. When they reach Sain Fort Mose they meet a woman name Inez. Inez shows them where they will be staying and then she personally tells Amari that she's pregnant,and that everything will be okay because they are free for now.

Polly is an indentured servant of Mr. Derby’s who becomes the best friend of Amari. Besa “buck” is a drummer from Amari’s village who becomes enslaved after the capture. Polly is an indentured servant of Mr. Derby’s who becomes the best friend of Amari. Besa “buck” is a drummer from Amari’s village who becomes enslaved after the capture. Clay is Mr. Derby’s son who impregnates Amari but dies after he is bitten by a copperhead snake. Mr. Derby is the slave master.Kwasi is Amari’s precocious little brother who dies shortly after the massacre . Amari and Kwasi’s father is the village storyteller who was murdered during the capture.

Sharon Drapers Copper Sun won the Coretta Scott King award in 2007.^[2]

Draper, Sharon (2006). Copper Sun. New York, New York: Simon Pulse. p. 302. ISBN 978-1-4169-5348-7 (pbk). ((cite book)): Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

Copper Sun is categorized as "HIstorical Fiction"^[3]