内容简介
In this fascinating inquiry into the African Diaspora, Caryl
Phillips embarks on a soul-wrenching journey to the three major
ports of the transatlantic slave trade.
Juxtaposing stories of the past with his own present-day
experiences, Phillips combines his remarkable skills as a travel
essayist with an astute understanding of history. From an West
African businessman's interactions with white Methodists in
nineteenth-century Liverpool to an eighteenth-century African
minister's complicity in the selling of slaves to a fearless white
judge's crusade for racial justice in 1940s Charleston, South
Carolina, Phillips reveals the global the impact of being uprooted
from one's home through resonant, powerful narratives.