false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398259m/172111.jpg 172111 23 Jessie Bollier often played his fife to earn a few pennies down by the New Orleans docks. One afternoon a sailor asked him to pipe a tune, and that evening Jessie was kidnapped and dumped aboard The Moonlight, a slave ship, where a hateful duty awaited him. He was to play music so the slaves could "dance" to keep their muscles strong, their bodies profitable. Jessie was sickened by the thought of taking part in the business of trading rum and tobacco for blacks and then selling the ones who survived the frightful sea voyage from Africa. But to the men of the ship a "slave dancer" was necessary to ensure their share of the profit. They did not heed the horrors that every day grew more vivid, more inescapable to Jessie. Yet , even after four months of fear, calculated torture, and hazardous sailing with a degraded crew, Jessie was to face a final horror that would stay with him for the rest of his life. 1192621 1974 The Slave Dancer total:550|5:103|4:191|3:179|2:57|1:20| 550 1950 772 76 1 2 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 09 13:59:38 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 14:30:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jul 31 14:39:58 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 14:48:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 13:51:26 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 14:23:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Aug 31 12:50:10 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 12:50:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Dec 11 17:42:29 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 17:50:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 14:07:08 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 20:35:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jul 24 11:53:51 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 11:54:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 12:41:35 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 15:17:32 -0700 2009 feels like literature. It reminded me a lot of Conrad's Heart of Darkness just in the lush descriptions, tone, and all of the symbolism running rampant beneath the words themselves. Beautifully written, and definitely deserving on its New...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 13:42:29 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 06:27:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jul 22 17:24:08 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 17:30:41 -0700 2009
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