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The Middle Passage
  • Published: 15 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9780525552444
  • Imprint: Dial
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $59.99

The Middle Passage

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Experience Tom Feelings's award-winning masterpiece, a classic of both children's literature and art history that explores the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade in a series of extraordinary narrative paintings

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.
  • Published: 15 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9780525552444
  • Imprint: Dial
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $59.99
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About the author

Tom Feelings

Tom Feelings has received numerous awards for his art in books. In 1972, he was the first African-American artist to win a Caldecott Honor, for Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book, and in 1975 he won a second Caldecott Honor for Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book, both written by Muriel Feelings. Mr. Feelings taught art at the University of South Carolina. It was during that time he published perhaps his best-known work, The Middle Passage, which won the 1996 Coretta Scott King Award. Mr. Feelings was working on finishing his last picture book, I Saw Your Face, a collaboration with the poet Kwame Dawes, not long before his death in 2003.
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Also by Tom Feelings

To Be a Slave
Soul Looks Back in Wonder
Moja Means One
Jambo Means Hello
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Praise for The Middle Passage

Winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
Special Commendation, The Jane Addams Children's Book Award

"We have needed to know the truth about the Middle Passage since 1619. Many thanks to Tom Feelings for showing through his masterful drawings how we came so late and lonely to this place." --Maya Angelou

"The Middle Passage is one of the great books of our time, and Tom Feelings is one of the greatest artists of this or any century." --Professor Sterling Stuckey, author of Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History and Slave Culture

"Tom Feelings's powerful paintings scorch the page, shaming western civilization for its crime against humanity--so intense, there is no room left for tears." --Silas H. Rhodes, Founder, School of Visual Arts

"In this powerful visual narrative, the artist Tom Feelings captures every infamy of the Atlantic slave trade. The Middle Passage is searing, uncompromising social art in the tradition of Jacob Lawrence's famed Migration Series." --Paule Marshall, author of Daughters and Praisesong for the Widow

"Feelings's art speaks to the soul in this magnificent visual record of the Black Diaspora in the Americas. . . . A powerfully rendered reality that all teens deserve the opportunity to experience." --School Library Journal

"[A] forthright and, ultimately, cathartic work of art, testimony not only to our capacity for evil, but also to the triumph of the spirit and of beauty." --Booklist