The Slave Dancer - Softcover
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.
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"Spellbinding...will horrify as well as fascinate." -- "School Library Journal," starred review
"Movingly and realistically presents one of the most gruesome chapters of history." -- "Booklist," starred review
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"Movingly and realistically presents one of the most gruesome chapters of history." -- "Booklist," starred review
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
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- PublisherYearling Books
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0440404029
- ISBN 13 9780440404026
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages152
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