Feeding the Ghosts

Feeding the Ghosts
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Publisher : Waveland Press
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781478632399
ISBN-13 : 1478632399
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Book Synopsis Feeding the Ghosts by : Fred D'Aguiar

Download or read book Feeding the Ghosts written by Fred D'Aguiar and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary venture into the economic shadow that slavery cast, Feeding the Ghosts, based on a true story, lays bare the raw business of the slave trade. The Zong, a slave ship packed with captive African “stock,” is headed to the New World. When illness threatens to disable all on board and cut potential profits, the ship’s captain orders his crew to throw the sick into the ocean. After being hurled overboard, Mintah, a young female slave taken from a Danish mission, is able to climb back onto the ship. From her hiding place, she rouses the remaining slaves to rebel and stirs unease among the crew with a voice and conscience they seem unable to silence. Mintah’s courage and others’ reactions to it unfold in a suspenseful story of the struggle to live even when threatened by oblivion.


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