Middle Passage.
by Charles Johnson
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0862419077
- ISBN 13
- 9780862419073
- Seller
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Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
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Synopsis
Charles R. Johnson is an American scholar and author of novels, short stories, and essays. His 1990 winner of the national Book Awards, Middle Passage , is a historical novel set in 1830. It is focused on the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship, the Republic. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave, is desperate to escape his debt to a local gangster and his impending forced marriage to a prim schoolteacher. He sneaks onto a ship that is headed out to sea to capture members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri. As the novel unfolds, Calhoun is trapped between three parties and thus begins a shocking voyage of horror, self-discovery and insurrection. A superbly written modern classic.
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- Bookseller
- Quixotic Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- QB01792
- Title
- Middle Passage.
- Author
- Charles Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0862419077
- ISBN 13
- 9780862419073
- Publisher
- Payback.
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- middle passage, historical fiction, slave trade, African diaspora, voyage, captivity, identity, survival, historical novel, human trafficking.
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