The Slave Dancer (novel)
Fox Paula
Jessie Bollier often
played his fife to earn a few pennies down by the New Orleans docks. One
afternoon a sailor asked him to pipe a tune, and that evening Jessie
was kidnapped and dumped aboard "The Moonlight," a slave ship, where a
hateful duty awaited him. He was to play music so the slaves could
"dance" to keep their muscles strong, their bodies profitable. Jessie
was sickened by the thought of taking part in the business of trading
rum and tobacco for blacks and then selling the ones who survived the
frightful sea voyage from Africa. But to the men of the ship a "slave
dancer" was necessary to ensure their share of the profit. They did not
heed the horrors that every day grew more vivid, more inescapable to
Jessie. Yet, even after four months of fear, calculated torture, and
hazardous sailing with a degraded crew, Jessie was to face a final
horror that would stay with him for the rest of his life.
played his fife to earn a few pennies down by the New Orleans docks. One
afternoon a sailor asked him to pipe a tune, and that evening Jessie
was kidnapped and dumped aboard "The Moonlight," a slave ship, where a
hateful duty awaited him. He was to play music so the slaves could
"dance" to keep their muscles strong, their bodies profitable. Jessie
was sickened by the thought of taking part in the business of trading
rum and tobacco for blacks and then selling the ones who survived the
frightful sea voyage from Africa. But to the men of the ship a "slave
dancer" was necessary to ensure their share of the profit. They did not
heed the horrors that every day grew more vivid, more inescapable to
Jessie. Yet, even after four months of fear, calculated torture, and
hazardous sailing with a degraded crew, Jessie was to face a final
horror that would stay with him for the rest of his life.
年:
1975
出版社:
Dell
语言:
english
页:
176
ISBN 10:
0440802016
ISBN 13:
9780440802013
系列:
novel
文件:
TXT, 217 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 1975
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