London: Faber & Faber, 2000. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper lightly sunned at the spine, a decent copy otherwise. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with yellow titling to the spine) Physically 9½” x 6¼” (0.9 kg); 221pp; ISBN: 0-5711-9620-9 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #195273|| Condition:

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Liverpool, England; Accra, Ghana; Charleston, South Carolina. These were the points of the triangle forming the major route of the transatlantic slave trade. And these are the cities that acclaimed author Caryl Phillips explores--physically, historically, psychologically--in this wide-ranging meditation on the legacy of slavery and the impact of the African diaspora on the life of a place and its people.In a brilliantly layered narrative, Phillips combines his own observations with the stories of figures from the past. The experiences of an African trader in nineteenth-century Liverpool are contrasted with Phillips's experience of the city, where, as a Carib-bean black, he is scorned by the city's "native" blacks. His interactions with American Pan-Africanists coming "home" to Ghana (and with those Ghanaians for whom leaving seems the best hope) are paired with the account of a British-trained African minister in eighteenth-century Accra who turned a blind eye to the slave trade flourishing around him. The story of a white judge who disrupted "the natural order" in Charleston by integrating the Democratic primary in 1947 is set against Phillips's search for remnants of the "pest houses" where slaves were "seasoned" be-fore being sold.Phillips weaves these narrative threads together with acute insight and a novelist's grasp of time, place and character. The result is a provocative and unexpected book, at once historically illuminating and profoundly affecting.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: BookLovers of Bath (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 195273
Title: The Atlantic Sound
Author: Caryl Phillips
Format/Binding: Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper lightly sunned at the spine, a decent copy otherwise.
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0571196209
ISBN 13: 9780571196203
Publisher: London: Faber & Faber
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2000
Keywords: journeys, travel, slave trade history, ghana elmina history, british slavery, liverpool history, south carolina, charleston, african diaspora, slave biographies, slave biography, history slaves, identity, belonging, dislocation race culture, first edition

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