Soulcatcher And Other Stories

Name: Soulcatcher And Other Stories
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ISBN: 9780156011129

ISBN-10: 0156011123

ISBN-13: 9780156011129

Edition: 1998

Authors: Charles Johnson

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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…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 132
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.41" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



Preface


The Transmission


Confession


Poetry and Politics


A Soldier for the Crown


Martha's Dilemma


The Plague


A Report from St.Domingue


The People Speak


Soulcatcher


A Lion at Pendleton


The Mayor's Tale


Murderous Thoughts