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Novel, Historical novel by Charles R. Johnson

Blurb

Middle Passage is a historical novel by Charles R. Johnson about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship. Set in 1830, it presents a personal and historical perspective of the illegal slave trade in the United States, telling the story of Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave who unknowingly boards a slave ship bound for Africa in order to escape a forced marriage.
It won the 1990 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.

First Published

1990

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