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Feelings, Tom

The Middle Passage: White Ships / Black Cargo

80 pp. | Dial | January, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-525-55244-4 $29.99
New ed. (1995)

(1) YA Feelings's haunting wordless visual history of the transatlantic slave trade has been updated with new textual material, including two additional introductions by artist Kadir Nelson  and by Feelings's son Kamili, as well as a historical note by scholar Sylviane A. Diouf. The visceral impact of Feelings's "ghostly, ghastly" (in Nelson's words) black-and-white images is as powerful as ever. A necessary and an unforgettable book. Bib.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 1996; May, 2018