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Imprint: Crown (Jun 08, 1977)
Fiction, Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780517506806

    Description of The African

    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.

    Harold Courlander

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