Middle Passages
Subtitle: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
Contributors: David Levering Lewis (Preface)
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Penguin Books
Published: April 24, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
ISBN-13: 9780143111986
First sentence: IN THE FOUR HUNDRED YEARS after Columbus touched ground at San Salvador, some fifteen million Africans were loaded into ships and borne into the maelstrom of New World slavery.