Please register to join us for an online d iscussion of Washington Black by Esi Edugyan.
\nWashington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the B arbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric br other chooses him to be his manservant\, Wash is terrified of the crueltie s he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde\, or "Titch\," is a natur alist\, explorer\, scientist\, inventor\, and abolitionist. He initiates W ash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky\; w here two people\, separated by an impossible divide\, might begin to see e ach other as human\; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wa sh's head\, Titch abandons everything to save him. What follows is their f light along the eastern coast of America\, and\, finally\, to a remote out post in the Arctic\, where Wash\, left on his own\, must invent another ne w life.
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