Middle Passage
Book - 1990
In 1830, seeking to escape an unwanted marriage, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave, becomes a stowaway aboard The Republic, unaware that the ship is a slave clipper bound for West Africa.
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Publisher:
New York : Atheneum, 1990
ISBN:
9780689119682
0689119682
0689119682
Characteristics:
209 p. ; 22 cm
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Add a CommentThis is a wonderful book "picaresque tale, historical romance, sea yarn, slave naarative and philosophical novel". A memorable character Rutherford Calhoun a black man stowaway on a slave ship.
the author constantly showed me my assumptions and expectations were completely off course! To say it is about race would be way too narrow. It is about the universal human experience through a superb storyteller. I found myself repeatedly sensing how insidious prejudice is!
1990 National Book Award - Fiction