1959
Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade
Published: July 5, 1992
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780241132203
Subjects: Modern fiction
First sentence: Those who took it down would never know that this spit of land was where the first ship bringing slaves to America stopped and dropped anchor long enough to put ashore an ailing African woman, presumably to die.