Item #00007883 Middle Passage. Charles Johnson.

Middle Passage

New York: Atheneum, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 209, [3] pp. Quarter black cloth over maroon paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Johnson's novel centers on Rutherford Calhoun, recently emancipated and looking to escape blackmail. He stows away on a slave ship bound for Africa, and is forced to confront the horrors of the American slave trade when he witnesses first-hand the transportation of African tribespeople across the Atlantic ocean. A lovely copy of the novel that won the 1990 National Book Award. Fine / very near Fine. Item #00007883

A Fine book in a very near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear.

Price: $75.00

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