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 | | The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo by Tom Feelings, John Henrik Clarke (Introduction) ISBN-10: 9780803718043 ISBN-10: 0-8037-1804-7 ISBN-13: 9780803718043 ISBN-13: 978-0-8037-1804-3 Hardcover 1995-11-01 Dial Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Alex Haley's Roots awakened many Americans to the cruelty of slavery. The Middle Passage focuses attention on the torturous journey which brought slaves from Africa to the Americas, allowing readers to bear witness to the sufferings of an entire people. 64 paintings. | ||
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Pictures worth a thousand words I first saw some of these pictures while visiting the Beach Institute in Savannah, Georgia, on a Freedom Trail Tour about the history of slavery in that area. The book has some text, but it's the picture that say it all. Absolutely stunning drawings! | ||
The Middle Passage:White Ships/Black Cargo Tom Feelings book the Middle Passage is an excellent book to use with students to help them learn about a topic that is often ignored (slavery). The images are striking and casue students to delve deeply into their emotional being to identfy the true feelings of slavery during a horrendous period of time. This books created great discussions and my students were able to broaden their scope on several topics: the middle passage, slavery, emancipation, etc. The best visual read that my students and I have had in a life time. | ||
dynamic and haunting images The Middle Passage is a phenominal series of paintings depicting the transportation of black slaves across the Atlantic. I use this large format book as a visual aid in my N.Y.C. art classes. It has inspired the type of dialogue we all want to have in our classrooms. | ||
Haunting Imagery Arguably miscategorized as a children's book, The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo is a fascinating chronological still portrait of the slave trade. Tom Feelings' images are graphic yet beautiful, cruel and realistic, uplifting but heartbreaking. The absence of words intensified the images on the pages by letting them speak for themselves. I particularly thought that the black and white (of the images as well as the intentional black/white of the figures in the images) was extremely powerful. The artwork is superb, but because of its violent subject material, other viewers might find it difficult to turn the pages. The details in the works are amazing, and the juxtaposition of the beauty of the human form and the cruelty of the slave trade is haunting. A major asset to any book collection. | ||
Silent Testimony Inaccessible and obscure to many because of its controversial categorization under children's books, Tom Feelings' The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo relays a story that simply cannot go untold. People of all ages will experience a strong reaction to the vivid, black and white illustrations chronicling the brutal history of America, of race, and of humanity that can never really be fully remembered. I would advise against simply handing the book to a child without being prepared to undergo the painful process of explaining the meaning of the narrative relayed by Feelings. The artist graphically captures many of the different atrocities that occurred: violence, rape, and dehumanizing conditions. The book sparks productive discussion between all people on the slave trade and on the different methods of representing that history. | ||