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Middle Passage (Paperback)
Charles Johnson
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Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books Winner of the National
Book Award 1990 The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my
career plans. Rutherford Calhoun, a puckish rogue and newly freed
slave, spends his days loitering around the docks of New Orleans,
dodging debt collectors, gangsters, and Isadora Bailey, a prim and
frugal woman who seeks to marry him and curb his mischievous
instincts. When the heat from these respective pursuers becomes too
much to bear, he cons his way on to the next ship leaving the dock:
the Republic. Upon boarding, to his horror he discovers that he is
on an illegal slave ship embarking on the Middle Passage, the
portion of the triangular trade route that saw slaves transported
from Africa to the US. Staffed by a crew of criminals and
degenerates, the Republic is on a mission to enslave members of the
legendary Allmuseri tribe, while the sadistic yet philosophical
Captain Falcon has a secondary objective: securing a mysterious
cargo that possesses a terrifying and otherworldly power. What
follows is a story of Rutherford's battle for survival, as he finds
himself juggling loyalties between the ship's crew and the enslaved
passengers, and is forced to use every ounce of the charm and
cunning that he possesses to endure the desperate conditions and
battle the myriad deadly forces on the high seas. A masterful blend
of allegory, black comedy, naval adventure and supernatural horror,
Charles Johnson's wildly inventive Middle Passage is a true modern
classic. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the
best of modern literature.
Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of
ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all
subsequent African American literature. "I Was Born a Slave"
collects the 20 most significant "slave narratives." They describe
whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hairbreadth
escapes; slave auctions, kidnappings, and murders; sexual abuse,
religious confusion, the struggle of learning to read and write;
and the triumphs and difficulties of life as free men and women.
Many of the narratives--such as those of Frederick Douglass and
Harriet Jacobs--have achieved reputations as masterpieces; but some
of the lesser-known narratives are equally brilliant. This
unprecedented anthology presents them unabridged, providing each
one with helpful introductions and annotations, to form the most
comprehensive volume ever assembled on the lives and writings of
the slaves.
Volume One (1770-1849) includes the narratives of James Albert
Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), William
Grimes, Nat Turner, Charles Ball, Moses Roper, Frederick Douglass,
Lewis & Milton Clarke, William Wells Brown, and Josiah
Henson.
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