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Examines how contemporary Black artists envision the Middle Passage as an original site of social death and a space of potential rebirth.

A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece—"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…hero

Examines how contemporary Black artists envision the Middle Passage as an original site of social death and a space of potential rebirth.

Argues that contemporary black dramas use the slave past to complicate views of the history of slavery, of the realities of racial progress, and of black subjec

How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance One of the most iconic images of slave