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About Middle Passage

Charles Johnson's Middle Passage (1990) is the National Book Award-winning novel about a freed slave who stows away on a slave ship in 1830. A novel of ideas in the tradition of Moby-Dick — philosophical, comic, and violent — confronting the history of the Middle Passage.

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