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Middle Passage (Plume) Book

In this savage parable of the African American experience, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave eking out a living in New Orleans in 1830, hops aboard a square rigger to evade the prim Boston schoolteacher who wants to marry him. But the Republic turns out to be a slave clipper bound for Africa. Calhoun, whose master educated him as a humanist, becomes the captain's cabin boy, and though he hates himself for acting as a lackey, he's able to help the African slaves recently taken aboard to stage a revolt before the rowdy, drunken crew can spring a mutiny. Middle Passage won the 1990 National Book Award. Read More

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  • Product Description

    "A novel in the honorable tradition of Billy Budd and Moby Dick . . . heroic in proportion . . . engrossing."--The New York Times Book Review. Middle Passage is an astonishing work of historical fiction about the slave trade which combines elements of classic 19th-century sea-going novels with the existential angst of a 20th-century philosopher. The result is a resonant work that is completely original and truly unforgettable.

  • 0452266386
  • 9780452266384
  • Charles Johnson
  • 1 July 1991
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 209
  • Reprint
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