Soulcatcher and other stories
By: Charles Johnson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: African Americans -- Fiction.; Historical fiction, American.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted and contradictory history. Now, in fictional form, National Book Award-winning author Charles Johnson presents twelve stories illuminating slavery's effects and experiences.

From Martha Washington's management of her slaves following the death of her husband to a boy chained in the bowels of a ship laden with human cargo plying the infamous passage from Africa to the South; from a lynching in Indiana to a hunter of escaped slaves searching the Boston market for his quarry; from a Quaker meeting exploring resettlement in Africa to the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation - the voices, terrors, and savagery of slavery come unforgettably to life.

These tales transcend history even as they present it, and retell the tragic proportions of a period with astounding realism, power, and emotion."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Harvest original."
Table of contents: title: The transmission; title: Confession; title: Poetry and politics; title: A soldier for the crown; title: Martha's dilemma; title: The plague; title: A report from St. Domingue; title: The people speak; title: The soulcatcher; title: A lion at Pendleton; title: The mayor's tale; title: Murderous thoughts.