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Book Review of The African

The African
The African
Author: Harold Courlander
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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An unforgettably moving story of an African boy who was kidnapped from his homeland by American slave traders. Decades of research re-creates the whole story-the horros of the Middle Passage, the boy's heroic fight for survival while shipwrecked on the islands of Saint Lucia, and the degradation of enslavement.