Clifford Browder

Dark Knowledge

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New York City, late 1860s. When young Chris Harmony learns that members of his family may have been involved in the illegal pre-Civil War slave trade, taking slaves from Africa to Cuba, he is appalled. Determined to learn the truth, he begins an investigation that takes him into a dingy waterfront saloon, musty old maritime records that yield startling secrets, and elegant brownstone parlors that may have been furnished by the trade. Since those once involved dread exposure, he meets denials and evasions, then threats, and a key witness is murdered. Chris has vivid fantasies of the suffering slaves on the ships and their savage revolts. How c… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Ezra, Koch (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-68114-367-5
EAN: 9781681143675
Produktnummer: 23891927
Verlag: Anaphora Literary Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 234 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 366 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 366

Über den Autor

Dark Knowledge, the third novel in Clifford Browder's Metropolis series, tells how New York City was the center of the North Atlantic slave trade right up until the outbreak of the Civil War. To write it, Browder did extensive research at the New York Public Library and the library of the New York Historical Society, using primary sources whenever possible. Readers will come to know the sights and sounds and smells of the waterfront, the horrors of the slave ships and their crammed human cargo, the clever subterfuges with which those involved in the trade avoided exposure, and the violence of slave revolts. The Metropolis series includes two other historical novels, The Pleasuring of Men and Bill Hope: His Story. Browder has also published an award-winning selection of posts from his blog: No Place for Normal: New York. He has never owned a television or a car, barely tolerates the computer (the feeling is mutual). Lately he learned the Charleston; geezers rock.