![]() ![]() ![]() Though she is horrified, she knows she cannot go back to her village, and only returns years later when she hears her father is dying. However, she quickly discovers that there are women in the dungeons being traded as slaves. Effia and James Collins are then married and develop sincere affection for each other when she moves into the Castle. Before Effia is married, Baaba gives her a black stone pendant-a piece of her mother. She tells Effia to hide her blood, and then contrives to have her marry a British man named James Collins who is the newly appointed governor of the Cape Coast Castle. She hopes to marry the next chief of the village, but Baaba has other plans for her. When Effia turns twelve, she begins to blossom into a young woman. As she grows up, her mother, Baaba, is cruel to her and abuses her, while her father, Cobbe, is kind. Effia is born on the night of a raging fire in Fanteland. ![]()
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