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Middle Passage

(1990)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book
To avoid an impending marriage and unscrupulous bill collectors, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, jumps aboard the first boat leaving New Orleans. However, it is a slave ship bound for Africa. Thus begins a voyage of horror and self-discovery.


Genre: Historical

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