![]() ![]() He is educated in England and then returns to his mother's village to handle business negotiations with his uncle Fiifi. Quey grows up in the Cape Coast Castle, where the white men live and where slaves are kept before being shipped away to the United States. Effia and James Collins, the white, British man she is married to, have a son named Quey. ![]() The chapters titled " Quey," " James," " Abena," Akua," " Yaw," and "Marjorie" follow the descendants of Effia. Effia, Maame's first daughter, is married to a white man who has come to Africa as part of the British slave trade, while her sister Esi, Maame's second daughter, is sold into slavery in the United States. Maame has one daughter while enslaved in a Fante village and another daughter after escaping back to Asanteland as a consequence, her daughters never meet. Homegoing follows the descendants of an Asante woman in the 1700s named Maame. ![]()
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