Gwandoya, a young boy from Africa, is kidnapped by slave traders and put onto a cramped slave ship for a three month journey. Upon arriving in the Americas, he is treated like property, kicked and whipped by white men. After being purchased as a slave, Gwandoya collapses while picking cotton in the hot sun. His master sentences him to 100 lashes as punishment, and Gwandoya slips away as the lashes continue, dying from the brutal beating.