Middle Passage

Name: Middle Passage
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Charles Johnson
ISBN: 9781456124090

Author: Charles Johnson

Narrator: Dion Graham

Unabridged: 7 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/11/2011

Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Classic, Historical Fiction, African American & Black Fiction

Synopsis

After the Confederacy falls, newly freed slave Rutherford Calhoun is eager to avoid marrying a prim schoolteacher and boards the first ship he finds moored at a New Orleans port. Unbeknownst to Calhoun, the vessel is a slave ship enroute to Africa. On the return trip, Calhoun is put to work as a cabin boy and quickly assists the newly captured slaves in revolting against the drunken crew. This compelling adventure is filled with a perfect blend of colorful narrative, historical romance and suspense.

About Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. His fiction includes Dr. King's Refrigerator, Dreamer, Faith and the Good Thing, and Middle Passage, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William2

An exquisite novel about the transportation of Africans across the Atlantic to bondage in the United States and the Caribbean. It won the National Book Award three years before Barry Unsworth’s fine and similarly themed Booker Award-winning Sacred Hunger was published. Belongs in the same league wit......more

Goodreads review by robin

Homo Est Quo Dammodo Omnia The quotation "Homo est quo dammodo omnia", attributed to Saint Thomas Aquinas, may be translated "In a way, man is everything". It serves as one of three epigraphs to Charles Johnson's 1990 National Book Award winning novel, "Middle Passage". Robert Hayden's poem "Middle P......more

Goodreads review by Bobby

Middle Passage is a bizarre book. I wanted to like it much more than I did. It's strengths are pretty strong but it's weaknesses, for me, had much more of an impact. It's short, barely two hundred pages, and it's one of the few books I would say that I wanted to be much longer. At one point towards......more