Book
Middle Passage
- Published
- 1998
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Pages
- 209
- Words
- 63698
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231113.Middle_Passage?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_14
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 7.1
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 1150L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–18
It is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is desperate to escape unscrupulous bill collectors and an impending marriage to a priggish schoolteacher. He jumps aboard the first boat leaving New Orleans, the Republic, a slave ship en route to collect members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri. Thus begins a daring voyage of horror and self-discovery.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780684855882
- ISBN-10
- 0684855887
Tags
BoatsHistory-SlaveryScience-PhilosophySocial IssuesTransportationUnited States of America