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The African is Harold Courlander's critically-acclaimed book of the slave trade as seen through the eye of Hwesuhunu. An insightful voyage through the volatile frontiers of American slavery, this remarkable report is the riveting principal source for Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize-winning book Roots. Hwesuhunu's life is portrayed in heartbreaking depth. You start with his get by French slave stock traders and the horrors of the Middle Passage, The African recounts his heroic combat for success while shipwrecked on the island of Saint Lucia, his enslavement on the Georgia plantation, and his fate-driven search for independence as a runaway. Throughout these ordeals, Courlander passionately and eloquently conveys the full panorama of Hwesuhunu's feelings, from the eager misunderstanding over his plight to his taking search for his life's interpretation. Peter Francis Adam' deeply resonant voice brings Courlander's masterful prose to life with electric power and purpose.
