Download or read book Escape Across the Wide Sea written by Katherine Kirkpatrick and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After escaping religious persecution in France in 1686, Daniel Bonnet, a young Huguenot boy, and his parents travel on a slave ship to West Africa, then to the Caribbean, and finally to New York. As Daniel grows he must confront the challenges and moral complexities of slavery, inequality, and disability.