Feeding the Ghosts - Softcover
A literary venture into the economic shadow that slavery cast, Feeding the Ghosts, based on a true story, lays bare the raw business of the slave trade. The Zong, a slave ship packed with captive African "stock," is headed to the New World. When illness threatens to disable all on board and cut potential profits, the ship's captain orders his crew to throw the sick into the ocean. After being hurled overboard, Mintah, a young female slave taken from a Danish mission, is able to climb back onto the ship. From her hiding place, she rouses the remaining slaves to rebel and stirs unease among the crew with a voice and conscience they seem unable to silence. Mintah's courage and others' reactions to it unfold in a suspenseful story of the struggle to live even when threatened by oblivion.
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The Zong was a real slave ship where slaves were tossed overboard due to disease in 1781. D'Aguiar says, "I came across an exhibit of a slave ship at The Maritime Museum in Liverpool.... A document at the gallery mentioned the Zong... one of the slaves who was thrown overboard managed to climb back on board. This contradicts the captain's claims that the slaves he threw away were too sick to survive the crossing." This incident, which provided inspiration for Feeding the Ghosts, also inspired a painting by J.M.W. Turner called "The Slave Ship."
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D'Aguiar is the author of The Longest Memory and winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 009976511X
- ISBN 13 9780099765110
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages230
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 230 pages. Returning from its last African mission, the slav e ship Zong falls prey to disease which quickly spreads through t he human cargo. Captain Cunningham orders 132 slaves to be thrown overboard. One woman, Minta, survives to tell a story which recl aims the lives of those drowned without ceremony. Seller Inventory # 1431ai
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