Description of The African by Harold Courlander
Before Alex Hailey’s Roots there was Courlander’s The African, which chronicles the experiences of a young African boy, Hwesuhunu, who is kidnapped from his homeland. His story recreates the horrors of the Middle Passage and the degradation of slavery.

- ISBN: 9780517506806
- Imprint: Crown
- Publisher: Penguin Random House
- Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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