Charles Johnson was asked by Orlando Bagwell , producer of the PBS series Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery," to write 12 short stories to dramatize the companion book. Johnson says, "Rarely is a writer given the opportunity (like an actor) to climb into the skin of both Frederick Douglass and Martha Washington, to descend into the fetid hold of a slave ship and join an eighteenth=century slave revolt, to play Jefferson's consul to Hati and inhabit the psyche of both a runnaway slave and his pursuer." This statement reveals some of the marvelous scope of this much too small book.

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This book is going to one of my very favorite persons with a plate of brownies.

Happy reading!

ATJ