Copper Sun is a harrowing tale of slavery in the American South. Fifteen-year-old Amari loses everything she holds dear in the course of one day when her peaceful African village is brutally attacked by slave catchers. She is taken, soon to become a slave sold into the clutches of a world where Africans are seen as property. Polly, a young white girl, faces a different yet similar fate. Polly is an indentured servant—a person bound to work off a debt that is not her own. The two girls form an unlikely friendship that gives them both the strength to escape their fate and seek freedom.