Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 144 Publisher: Sandpiper In this historical novel set in the Virgin Islands of 1733. Raisha escapes from her Dutch owners in time to witness the mass suicide of her fellow slaves who prefer death to recapture . Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl ought as a slave to the Danish owned Caribbean island of St. John as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734.