Soulcatcher

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Publication Year:
2001

ISBN-13: 9780547545226

<DIV><B>Short stories inspired by the history of slavery in America, by the National Book Award&ndash;winning author of <I>Middle Passage</I>.</B><BR /><BR /> Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted and contradictory history. Now, famed novelist Charles Johnson, whose <I>Middle Passage</I> won the National Book Award, presents a dozen tales of the effects and experience of slavery, each based on historical fact, and each about those Africans who arrived on our shores in shackles. From Martha Washington&rsquo;s management of her slaves, bequeathed to her at the death of the first president, to a boy chained in the bowels of a ship plying the infamous passage from Africa to the South laden with human cargo, from a lynching in Indiana to a hunter of escaped slaves searching the Boston market for his quarry, from an early Quaker meeting exploring resettlement in Africa to the day after Emancipation&mdash;the voices, terrors, and savagery of slavery come vividly and unforgettably to life.<BR /><BR /> &ldquo;[These] highly detailed short historical fictions bring to life this most shameful period in our nation&rsquo;s history.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The New York Times Book Review</I></DIV>