"The sea is slavery," begins Fred D'Aguiar's powerful novel, which starts aboard the Zong, a slave ship returning from Africa in 1781. Only ten weeks into the voyage, the Zong is struck with a disease that threatens to infect all of the human cargo. The ship's profit-driven commander, Captain Cunningham, conceives a gruesome plan to safeguard his financial investment. In order to recover insuranc...
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Vintage
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230 pagine
ISBN
009976511X
Lingua
English
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A colori, 230 pagine
Genres
Fiction, Slaves, African americans, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Slaves, fiction
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