Out of many waters

Description:

Kidnapped from their parents during the Portuguese Inquisition and sent to work as slaves at a monastery in Brazil, two Jewish sisters attempt to make their way back to Europe to find their parents, but instead one becomes part of a group founding the first Jewish settlement in the United States.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Jews,  Inquisition,  Juvenile fiction,  Jews -- Brazil -- History -- Fiction,  Brazil,  Inquisition -- Brazil,  pirates,  Fiction, action & adventure,  Fiction, historical, general,  Missouri, fiction

Places: Brazil,  United States,  New Amsterdam

Times: 1654