Middle Passage – Johnson, Charles

ISBN: 0689119682
Title: Middle Passage
Author: Johnson, Charles
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum, New York
Publication Date: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Book Condition: NF
D-j Condition: F-

Comments: Back of d-j has a few tiny spots. Ink writing on FFEP.

Synopsis: 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.