The Atlantic Sound

PHILLIPS,C

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Author
PHILLIPS,C
Publish Date
10/01/2001
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
RNDMHSE
Number of Pages
288
Edition
Reprint
ISBN-10
0375701036
ISBN-13
9780375701030
SKU
9780375701030

Description

In this fascinating inquiry into the African Diaspora, Caryl Phillips embarks on a soul-wrenching journey to the three major ports of the transatlantic slave trade.

Juxtaposing stories of the past with his own present-day experiences, Phillips combines his remarkable skills as a travel essayist with an astute understanding of history. From an West African businessman's interactions with white Methodists in nineteenth-century Liverpool to an eighteenth-century African minister's complicity in the selling of slaves to a fearless white judge's crusade for racial justice in 1940s Charleston, South Carolina, Phillips reveals the global the impact of being uprooted from one's home through resonant, powerful narratives.