Feeding the Ghosts
by:
Fred D'Aguiar (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060955939 (0060955937)
Publish date: April 1st 2000
Publisher: Ecco Press
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
Throughout Fred D’Aguiar’s factually-based novel one character is described and portrayed in full detail and complexity: Mintah. D’Aquiar’s novel chronicles the events aboard the slave ship Zong, where—under orders by Captain Cunningham—the crew throws 132 slaves overboard. In theory, Captain Cunni...