Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson is the National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage and Dreamer. From Ralph Ellison--author of the classic novel of African-American experience, One of the leading voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary ... [... more]
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Middle Passage
 Too Scary for Kids: This is a book that is too dark and scary for children. The book contains black and white illustrations of violent and frightening scenes. One implies slave rape. Another shows rats eating the corpses of dead Africans. One quote from [... more]
CDN$75.00
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Nathan Irvin Huggins
This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of [... more]
Random House |
2003 Festival In The Desert
From Amazon.com: Throwing an enormous Woodstock-style music festival in the middle of the Sahara desert--the gorgeous photos included in the booklet to Festival in the Desert make clear--isn't exactly easy. Held during the last three years in the [... more]
CDN$17.99
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Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora
A unique history: This book has a statement in its epilogue that is among the best I've ever seen as a match between the subject matter and the purpose of the book itself - Michael A. Gomez writes of the growth of reconnection between Africa proper and [... more]
CDN$23.95
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Book of Negroes
Outstanding!: The actual Book of Negroes is an amazing historical document (a British military ledger) that contains the names and descriptions of 3,000 men, women, and children who served or were supported by the British during the American [... more]
CDN$24.95
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Collected Poems
What it means to be human: ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980) was the first African-American to be appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now titled the U.S. Poet Laureate. He won numerous prizes and awards during the last decade of [... more]
CDN$29.99
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Amistad
From Amazon.com: Director Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams have forged a remarkable partnership over the past 20 years, one that's evolved in recent years into a very practical balance of art and commerce. The Spielberg/Williams team followed [... more]
CDN$18.99
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The Middle Passage
This is THE book for midlife: Don't buy this book when you are in your 20's or early 30's. But at some point--it varies with the individual--we're ready to look more closely, to see what's behind the curtain. (That's a reference to the Wizard of Oz. If [... more]
CDN$24.04
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Middle Passage (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: The first image seen in The Middle Passage is a spotless tropical beach. But this is paradise lost, and most of the remainder of this poetically harrowing feature is spent on a slave ship bound from the African coast to the New World. [... more]
CDN$20.82
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Middle Passage
From Amazon.com: In this savage parable of the African American experience, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave eking out a living in New Orleans in 1830, hops aboard a square rigger to evade the prim Boston schoolteacher who wants to marry him. But [... more]
CDN$17.50
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The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited
A book to read and reread: 'The Middle Passage' is the account of a sunny journey across the Caribbean in 1960-61. During his travelling, Naipaul enjoys the calypso in Trinidad, takes a memorable hiking trip to the Nutchi falls in British Guyana, travels [... more]
CDN$19.95
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