A young boy born into slavery meets a newly purchased slave from Africa who refuses to let go of his culture, despite the master's attempts to christianize him.

A lineage of women born of the First Mother who escaped slavery survive in a swamp for several generations until some of the women begin to consider life outside the swamp.

A young woman from Dahomey is stolen during the Dutch colonization. She is separated from her brother and hopes to go on a mission to find him.

A freed slave on an alien planet reflects on the enormous societal upheavals she witnessed and led.

Through conversations with his great-great aunt, a man learns the history of a formerly enslaved family matriarch. His brother’s recent arrest gains new meaning as he learns more about his ancestors.

An African man arguing for his ancient grandfather’s passage to Mecca tells the story of his enslavement and separation from his brother during the American Civil War.

On her walk home, a white Southern girl is asked by a Black convict for a small, simple favor. After she refuses to comply out of fear, she is haunted by guilt.

A prisoner wrongly accused of bank robbing escapes and is given the power of Ogun to help fight against the enslavement of African Americans.

In a far-future dystopia, a young girl imprisoned for religiously deviant thoughts and behaviors yearns to escape from the paradisal prison complex constructed by artificial intelligence. She is surprised when the artificial intelligence guarding her cell does not stop her inventive plan to get seven people to break her out.

A young girl is captured by scavenger army raiders, separated from her mother, and—alongside other children—forced to rummage the post-apocalyptic ruins of the raiders’ town. In the wasteland, she finds an artifact from the Before, offering her and the other captives a chance at freedom.