Soulcatcher and Other Stories Contributor(s): Johnson, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156011123 ISBN-13: 9780156011129 Publisher: Amistad Press OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2001 Annotation: A National Book Award winner presents 12 powerful stories of the African experience of slavery in America, each based on historical fact. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | African American - Historical |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 00053950 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.30 lbs) 132 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Johnson, Charles: - Charles Johnson, recipient of a 1998 MacArthur Foundation Award, is the author of five works of fiction, including Dreamer. He has received many honors and awards, including the National Book Award. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. |