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Kojo is Sam and Ness’s son. He escapes the plantation with Ma Aku as a baby, and Ma Aku brings him to freedom in the North, where she raises him as an adopted son. He then works as a free man on boats in Baltimore and starts a family with his wife, Anna. Even though he is a free man in a city that is relatively friendly towards black people, slavery still exists and its specter torments him. Once the Fugitive Slave Act is passed (which means that Kojo, as a runaway, can legally be sent back into slavery), Kojo develops a deep fear of law enforcement officials, avoiding them whenever possible. Right after the Fugitive Slave Act is passed, Anna wife is kidnapped, leaving Kojo a heartbroken and terrified single father to their daughter, Agnes. He never knows the son that Anna was pregnant with, H, when she was kidnapped.
Kojo / Jo Quotes in Homegoing
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He loved the look of those boats, loved that his hands helped build and maintain them, but Ma Aku always said it was bad juju, him and all the other freed Negroes working on ships. She said there was something evil about them building up the things that had brought them to America in the first place, the very things that had tried to drag them under.
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He would never truly know who his people were, and who their people were before them, and if there were stories to be heard about where he had come from, he would never hear them.
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Kojo / Jo Quotes in Homegoing
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He loved the look of those boats, loved that his hands helped build and maintain them, but Ma Aku always said it was bad juju, him and all the other freed Negroes working on ships. She said there was something evil about them building up the things that had brought them to America in the first place, the very things that had tried to drag them under.
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He would never truly know who his people were, and who their people were before them, and if there were stories to be heard about where he had come from, he would never hear them.
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