Soulcatcher

And Other Stories

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Historical
Cover of the book Soulcatcher by Charles Johnson, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Author: Charles Johnson ISBN: 9780547545226
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication: March 15, 2001
Imprint: Mariner Books Language: English
Author: Charles Johnson
ISBN: 9780547545226
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication: March 15, 2001
Imprint: Mariner Books
Language: English

Short stories inspired by the history of slavery in America, by the National Book Award–winning author of Middle Passage.

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] highly detailed short historical fictions bring to life this most shameful period in our nation’s history.” —The New York Times Book Review

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Short stories inspired by the history of slavery in America, by the National Book Award–winning author of Middle Passage.

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] highly detailed short historical fictions bring to life this most shameful period in our nation’s history.” —The New York Times Book Review

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