Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

We follow the stories of three children, sold as slaves by their father (Africa?). The stories take place over 250 years, a black man being returned to Liberia as a missionary, a freed slave trying to find her daughter, a young GI stationed in England. The stories sometimes finish ambiguously, but all are moving and frequently tell stories that are new to me. The relationships between black and white people are also sympathetic and, it seems to me, honest.