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Soulcatcher: And other stories
by Johnson, Charles
- New
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0156011123
- ISBN 13
- 9780156011129
- Seller
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Mariner Books. New. Special order direct from the distributor
Synopsis
Twelve stories about the African experience of slavery in America, by the National Book Award-winning novelist. 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 Middle Passage 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'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-the voices, terrors, and savagery of slavery come vividly and unforgettably to life. These stories, told by a master storyteller, transcend history even as they present it, and retell the mythic proportions of a historical period with astounding realism and beauty, power, and emotion.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Russell Books Ltd
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ING9780156011129
- Title
- Soulcatcher: And other stories
- Author
- Johnson, Charles
- Book Condition
- New New
- Binding
- Trade Paper
- ISBN 10
- 0156011123
- ISBN 13
- 9780156011129
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 2001-03-15
Terms of Sale
Russell Books Ltd
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About the Seller
Russell Books Ltd
Biblio member since 2006
Victoria, British Columbia
About Russell Books Ltd
Family owned and operated since 1961. Located in Downtown Victoria selling new, used, and remainder titles in all categories. We also have an extensive selection of Journals, cards and calendars.
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