num_pages: 513
description: Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the "middle passage," but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans traveling in the opposite direction. In Middle Passages , award-winning historian James T. Campbell vividly recounts more than two centuries of African American journeys to Africa, including the experiences of such extraordinary figures as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou. A truly groundbreaking work, Middle Passages offers a unique perspective on African Americans' ever-evolving relationship with their ancestral homeland, as well as their complex, often painful relationship with the United States.
language: English
title: Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
titlecomplete: Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
genres: History, Race, American History, The United States Of America, African American, Africa, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 65
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Mark Lynton History Prize
publisher: Penguin Books