Middle Passage
by Johnson, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0689119682
- ISBN 13
- 9780689119682
- Seller
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Maplewood, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book House - St. Louis (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017012
- Title
- Middle Passage
- Author
- Johnson, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0689119682
- ISBN 13
- 9780689119682
- Publisher
- Atheneum Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Fiction, Historical, Slavery, Slave, Trade, African, American, History, historical
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American;