The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies -- British, French and Dutch -- in the West Indies and South America
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0394746740
ISBN 13
9780394746746
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Publication Year
1981
Publisher
Pages
232
Description
From book cover: "'The middle passage' was the name given to the slave-carrying voyages between African and the Caribbean, and in this study V.S. Naipual is particularly concerned with the way in which the character of ex-colonies was formed by their past history, which rested on slave labor. Born in Trinidad, to which his grandfather had emigrated from India, Naipual writes from a peculiar vantage point. 'This book,' wrote the New York Times Book Review, 'is the work of an insider looking on familiar scenes as if he were on the outside. He arouses one's affections for his subject, being sad, gay, lifelike, urbane.'"
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