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The Slave Dancer
A Novel
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Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
Author:
Fox, Paula
Title:
The slave dancer
a novel
a novel
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Imprint:
Scarsdale, N.Y., - Bradbury Press
Pages:
176
ISBN:
0878880623, 9780878880621, 0689845057, 9780689845055, 9780027355604, 0027355608
Language:
English
Awards & Distinctions:
Newbery Medal, 1974.
Newbery Award, 1974.
Newbery Medal, 1974.
Newbery Award, 1974.
Notes:
Reissued by Atheneum Books in 2001 as "A Richard Jackson book" with ISBN 0689845057. Reprinted by the publisher in 1985 with the ISBN 9780027355604.
History -- Errand -- Moonlight -- Shrouds -- Bight of Benin -- Nicholas Spark walks on water -- Spaniard -- Ben Stout's mistake -- Old man -- Home and after.
History -- Errand -- Moonlight -- Shrouds -- Bight of Benin -- Nicholas Spark walks on water -- Spaniard -- Ben Stout's mistake -- Old man -- Home and after.
Statement of responsibility:
by Paula Fox ; with illustrations by Eros Keith
Characteristics:
176 p. :,ill. ;,24 cm.
Author (Original Script):
Fox, Paula
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Add a Summary"A thirteen-year-old boy wanders down the New Orleans wharf to watch the slave traders unload their cargo. He is shanghaied aboard a ship bound for Africa to play for the slaves while they exercise. He befriends a black boy his age and they witness the horrors of slavery together." (Novelist Review)
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