Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born.<\/p>\n
When his master’s eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or “Titch,” is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist.<\/p>\n
He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each 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 Wash’s head, Titch abandons everything to save him.<\/p>\n
What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life, one which will propel him further across the globe.<\/p>\n
From the sultry cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, Washington Black<\/i> tells a story of friendship and betrayal, love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again–and asks the question, what is true freedom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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